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Discussion on: Why I prefer Maven over Gradle

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Grigoriy Myasoedov

While YAML is not perfect, I think a lot of users would welcome a more lightweight way of wrting the configs

There is polyglot-maven project that allows you to write build scripts in different languages. including Yaml

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Arnaud Dagnelies

Yeah, I noticed that too. But it requires you to explicitly search for it, to download, install and configure the plugin. Basically, it's defying the purpose of making your life easier. Whether the plugin works properly and how your dev tools integrate it is another matter.