Declarative Gradle and Gradle History with Adam Murdoch, CTO at Gradle

At the Gradle World Meeting in Barcelona, we met with Adam Murdoch, the CTO of Gradle Inc., who has been contributing to the Gradle Build Tool since the very beginning of the project. We discussed the history of Gradle, the challenges for users, and Declarative Gradle - a new project we started to address complexity and improve developer experiences.
Declarative Gradle targets better isolation of concern and expressing any build clearly and understandably. Learn more: declarative.gradle.org/
00:00 Opening
00:08 Adam's Journey with Gradle
02:12 Performance Improvements in Gradle
03:12 Challenges we saw
04:07 Evolution of the Ecosystem
06:34 Scalability focus in recent years
07:16 Gradle Build Scan and Develocity
08:29 Developer Productivity
10:17 Did build tools become a commodity? Leveraging open standards
12:30 Declarative Gradle - Why?
15:07 Declarative Gradle - Developer First Focus
17:20 Declarative Gradle - Ready Out-of-the-Box
19:40 Declarative Gradle - Benefits for the ecosystem
21:50 Declarative Gradle Milestones
24:11 How to participate and share feedback, and Kotlinconf
25:37 Wrap Up

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If you are watching this video and want to learn more, check out the Declarative Gradle site we launched a few days ago: declarative.gradle.org/ . It includes overview, samples and getting started guidelines , and we will keep updating it as the new updates come in