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…

  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    Here are a couple of reasons:

    • C and C++ projects often predate Gradle by decades they will not change their build system without a compelling reason.
    • Gradle is written in Java and requires a Java Runtime.
    • At least for C++, CMake has pretty much become the standard build tool.
    • Dependency resolution on Linux was ‘solved’ by relying on the distribution. Today, there also exist package managers for C and C++ like vcpkg or conan and they also integrate with CMake.