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Ant is... well let's just say if you're using Ant you're doing it wrong ;) (or that's a very-old-legacy-stuff)


Old doesn't mean it is bad. Still ant is so much faster than gradle and maven.


Yes, speed matters for builds if you need to rebuild and retest after every source edit. And despite Gradle finally upgrading to Groovy 2, it still uses the ancient Antlr 2 based grammar which is even more ancient than Ant.




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