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Gradle vs SBT: What are the differences?

What is Gradle? A powerful build system for the JVM. Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.

What is SBT? An open-source build tool for Scala and Java projects. It is similar to Java's Maven and Ant. Its main features are: Native support for compiling Scala code and integrating with many Scala test frameworks.

Gradle and SBT can be primarily classified as "Java Build" tools.

Gradle is an open source tool with 9.23K GitHub stars and 2.7K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gradle's open source repository on GitHub.

Netflix, Lyft, and 9GAG are some of the popular companies that use Gradle, whereas SBT is used by Auto Trader, Betaout, and MD Insider. Gradle has a broader approval, being mentioned in 465 company stacks & 360 developers stacks; compared to SBT, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

Pros of Gradle

Pros of SBT

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Flexibility
52
Easy to use
47
Groovy dsl
22
Slow build time
9
Crazy memory leaks
7
Fast incremental builds
4
Kotlin DSL
1
Windows Support

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Cons of Gradle

Cons of SBT

4
It is just the mess of Ant++
3
Hard to decide: ten or more ways to achieve one goal
3
Inactionnable documentation

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What is Gradle?

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.

What is SBT?

It is similar to Java's Maven and Ant. Its main features are: Native support for compiling Scala code and integrating with many Scala test frameworks.

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What are some alternatives to Gradle and SBT?

Apache Ant

Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make's wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code.

Jenkins

In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

Groovy

Groovy builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. It makes modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve.

Apache Maven

Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.

Bazel

Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.

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News about Gradle

Introducing Configuration Caching

(blog.gradle.org)

Aug 10, 2020

Gradle vs Bazel for JVM Projects

(blog.gradle.org)

Jun 30, 2020

Refining the Gradle issue backlog

(blog.gradle.org)

Jun 9, 2020