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jryan49 on April 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven

Wasn't Java 9 modules supposed to help address these issues?

aiCeivi9 on April 4, 2018 [–]

No, it is supposed to reduce surface area between modules/jars. Before Java9 library creators could only add "internal" to their packages name and hope end users won't touch it.

The introduction of modules might actually make version hell even worse: https://blog.codefx.org/java/dev/will-there-be-module-hell/

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