Why hasn't gradle been adopted for C/C++ projects? (programming.dev)

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I know little about gradle and have only just started exploring it, so this is just a question out of curiosity.

It's supposedly a language agnostic dependency manager and builder, yet it seems to have only found its niche in Java. C/C++ projects could definitely do with dependency resolution...

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[-] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gradle upgrades are dead simple… like yeah I get a bunch of the other criticisms of Gradle, but they mark things as deprecated two full major versions ahead and then slowly phase them out. Upgrades are a single command.

I haven’t really encountered the issues others are having and I’m guessing a lot of them occurred before Gradle’s switch to kotlin.

Edit: or the issues are actually from android build tool and not actually Gradle

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