Why you should embrace Gradle and ditch Maven
summary
Argues that Gradle replaces Maven with concrete wins: build cache (local + remote) and incremental compilation reuse task outputs to avoid rebuilding unchanged artifacts, plus a daemon and parallel workers that yield dramatic speedups (up to ~7x in best cases, only slight overhead in worst cases). Shows integrated build scans web UI for per-task timing and CI diagnostics, demonstrates migrating a real project with the Gradle Wrapper and existing plugins mostly working but notes obscure Maven plugins may need replacement. Provides commands and steps that successfully convert and run tests and CI.
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