Apache Ant Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Want to Get Better at Java? Go Old School.

  I will not suggest truly old-school Java programming. When I started in Java, we built Java classes with the javac command. This led to writing shell scripts to build complex projects and finally, Makefiles using the Unix and Windows commands make and nmake respectively. I remember being thrilled when the Ant utility came out and we had a pure Java build tool. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• I am about to write my first code but god has a different plan.

  Didn't know that people still use Ant for building their source code. Source: over 1 year ago

• I am about to write my first code but god has a different plan.

  OP is just running this https://ant.apache.org/, nothing to worry about. Source: over 1 year ago

• Better CI/CD caching with new-gen build systems

  A build system is a program that orchestrates the execution of underlying tools such as compilers, code generators, test runners, linters and so on. Examples of build systems include the venerable Make, the JVM-centric Ant, Maven and Gradle, and newer systems such as Pants and Bazel (full disclosure: I am one of the maintainers of Pants). - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Build error when running 'nix build', running build steps by hand with 'nix develop' works

  You are missing a dependency: antlr. You have ant instead, which is something completely different. Source: almost 2 years ago

• what are the best resources to learn makefile and how to understand large codebases

  Make has many detractors, but I've shipped some fairly large projects using nothing but it as the build system. Once you've settled on a particular implementation of make, you can get a lot done with it. The pain comes in when you want to do even modestly interesting things and you need it to work on both GNU make and SysV (or BSD) make. Its syntax also speaks loudly as to the era which it's from, but the same... Source: about 3 years ago