Is this why all the hipsters are using gradle?

Why Gradle?

These two projects do the same thing

You can easily build a gradle hybrid project by cloning down https://github.com/nickmcdowall/JavaAndGroovy/.  This project also demonstrates WHY gradle is a great choice for new projects.

• It doesnt break maven conventions
• It isn't XML
• Its builds the exact same project in 10% of the space.  

But it doesnt stop there.  Now lets look at the build....

Same thing: the Gradle output is clear.  Albeit 3 seconds slower.

 There might be a little extra runtime overhead with gradle (6 sec vs 3 sec for maven), im not sure.  I don't really care.  But I do like the readability.  But one thing I like about maven is the unit test summaries.  What if I want the unit test output?  I can easily just add whatever groovy candy I want in snippets, as shown here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3963708/gradle-how-to-display-test-results-in-the-console-in-real-time.

Gradle for maven users

To build a gradle project:

gradle build

To create an eclipse project:

Add apply plugin: 'eclipse' to the top of your build.gradle
Run gradle eclipse