I am old. I used ant, ported to maven when I discovered it (yes Maven 1). Always stuck with it. Maven has been a really nice consistent build tool. I never had to build something so complex it did not know what to do. And no I never used the ant plugin; it's an anti-pattern for Maven. Custom maven plugin's is perfectly fine (I never needed it) but if you need them you probably are doing it wrong (IMHO). My build are never that complex as I mainly write reasonably standard software for businesses.
Nice how you say "your IDE support in...", to refer to IntelliJ. I avoid that. I use Visual Studio Code and Netbeans.
BTW: writing something in bash means it will work for at least a decade. All people on my team will know how it works and understand it and maintain it. Introducing something new mean we all need to learn it. Yesterday my build for a simple website failed because gulp was updated and I ported the entire build to a bash script. It was faster and way simpler.
Let me make it clear here: I hate Grails. I think you have the same gripe as I do. They keep changing the DSL so you need to rewrite your scripts. Since it is a programming language each project has a different build even though most projects are the same. Because people do the same stuff differently.
When I have an issue with maven I will try Mill. Promised.
Nice how you say "your IDE support in...", to refer to IntelliJ. I avoid that. I use Visual Studio Code and Netbeans.
BTW: writing something in bash means it will work for at least a decade. All people on my team will know how it works and understand it and maintain it. Introducing something new mean we all need to learn it. Yesterday my build for a simple website failed because gulp was updated and I ported the entire build to a bash script. It was faster and way simpler.
Let me make it clear here: I hate Grails. I think you have the same gripe as I do. They keep changing the DSL so you need to rewrite your scripts. Since it is a programming language each project has a different build even though most projects are the same. Because people do the same stuff differently.
When I have an issue with maven I will try Mill. Promised.