Definitely a Gradle guy here . I ' ve used maven a lot and fully switched to gradle a few years ago . First , I like the Gradle Wrapper , because it means people can check out and start building regardless of what build toolschain they have installed . I like that it ' s built on groovy and is very accessible to Java programmers although most wouldn ' t realize it by looking at the code . I like the multiproject support . It allows me to simply break down my projects into logical components . I like it ' s integration with android and intellijandroid studio . I also like the optimizations that are done , and I like the performance on pojo projects , especially when there are multiple submodules . <| sep |> Muh russias . are democrats really going to beat the mcarthyism drum for 8 years ?