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[agibsonccc]

I'd consider maybe looking at gradle then. The awesome thing about maven is it is os agnostic and is at least stable.

Most of the jvm libs are stored in maven central.

[_asummers → agibsonccc]

Gradle is fantastic to work with. Groovy is nice when you need it, but the DSL is just much better to work with than Maven.

[vorg → _asummers]

Gradle 3, due out soon, will use Kotlin instead of Apache Groovy as its prefered language for writing build scripts and plugins.

[durub → vorg]

It just got released! https://github.com/gradle/gradle/releases

[_asummers → vorg]

Ooooh how exciting! I like that a lot. I can find this out myself, but what do they plan on doing with existing Groovy plugins for gradle pipelines?

[fn1 → vorg]

...which will make it completely typesafe.