gradle reboot -- 2025W06 update

Good evening,

If anybody had doubts about the relevance of Java these days, the 
attendance of UA2.118 @ FOSDEM last Saturday should be reassuring, this 
is still a fairly popular language and environment, and still evolving 
to reduce the gap with some of the "cooler" alternatives such as Kotlin. 
I was hoping to meet some Gradle folks there, but as they were denied 
their own stand and their talks due to fierce competition they didn't 
show up (or maybe some did, but not publicly). Kotlin had their own 
stand and I could talk a bit with them, though I abstained from boasting 
about the uncanny things I'm doing with their project.

Le 2025-01-31 19:00, Julien Plissonneau Duquène a écrit :
> it's a slow and tedious process, though I think I'm progressing, and I 
> still have some hopes to be able to get the thing to work with the 
> Frankenkotlin.

I got a new Frankenkotlin to build with new backports by Wednesday and 
resumed the work on downgrading Gradle's Kotlin code to get it to build 
with that compiler and stdlib version. I'm already done with a few 
modules and I'm currently on the most touchy one, kotlin-dsl. This is 
still some tedious work, but not as tedious as backporting things into 
the very outdated and customized Kotlin build. This time I'm definitely 
not expecting the first stage to work on the first few tries, but I 
still think that there are reasonable chances to succeed with this 
approach, and valuable things for both projects maintenance will be 
learned in any case. I will probably be able to share the results of 
these experiments by next week.

Cheers,