Gradle Elevates the Build to First-Class Programming With Kotlin Language | Business Wire

Gradle Elevates the Build to First-Class Programming With Kotlin Language | Business Wire

Gradle Elevates the Build to First-Class Programming With Kotlin Language Alliance between Gradle Inc. and JetBrains makes the Build a first-class citizen in Software Development May 17, 2016 11:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Gradle Inc. today announced an alliance with JetBrains to provide a Kotlin-based Build Programming Language for Gradle, the popular open source build automation software. Why is this important? Historically, build automation has relied on simplistic shell scripts or inflexible XML files. This no longer works. In the age of Continuous Delivery and DevOps, builds have become a full-fledged engineering discipline. Today, a product's build is mission-critical; it automates and assembles, connects, tests, packages and—in many cases—deploys or ships that product. As such, the design, implementation and maintainability of build code demands first-class treatment. Today,

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