Gradle Build Tool
Accelerate developer productivity. Build, automate and deliver better software, faster.

Gradle is an open-source build automation tool that supports projects ranging from small solo apps to large enterprise monorepos. It uses expressive DSLs in Kotlin and Groovy to define build logic and features safe caching, parallel execution, and a rich plugin ecosystem. It is widely adopted in the JVM ecosystem and ranks among the top 20 open source projects globally.
Gradle uses incremental builds, safe caching, and parallel execution with Kotlin/Groovy DSLs and a plugin ecosystem to automate and speed up the build, test, and deployment pipeline.
software developers and engineering teams building JVM-based or multi-language projects
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- Gradle, Inc.
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