What is Bld? Want to write your software build logic entirely in Java? There’s a new build tool out that does exactly that. It’s name? Bld.. It’s built by two heavyweights of the software engineering ...

Pants is on version 2.9 as of this writing, and now includes alpha support for Java and Scala as well as support for Python and Go. Keep reading to get a look at this promising open source build tool.

Ant and Maven require XML, which -- in the eyes of some Java developers -- is a drag. More than a decade after Gradle's first release, the Java build tool is well-established, though still not the ...

Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the open-source version of the Java development kit (JDK). The release follows the April preview of the ...