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Then vs. Now of Build Tools
By Ravindra Jaju
February 28, 2025
- Explores the evolution of build tools from simple shell commands to modern sophisticated systems like Gradle and CMake
- Demonstrates the fundamental difference between Java and C/C++ build approaches, with Java hiding many complexities that C developers had to manage manually
- Illustrates how Make was created to solve compilation dependency problems through timestamp-based rebuilding
- Shows how Java build tools like Ant, Maven, and Gradle introduced platform independence and dependency management
- Highlights the importance of conventions in modern build tools, particularly in Java's ecosystem
- Explains how CMake provides an abstraction layer that generates complex makefiles automatically for C/C++ projects
- Demonstrates the value of using simple tools like Make for straight forward tasks rather than over-engineering solutions
- Covers how build tools evolved to handle package management, dependency resolution, and integration with IDEs
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