Howdy, I am aware for example the JRuby uses polyglot: https://github.com/jruby/jruby
AFAIK, not all languages are "same done" or maybe I may risk "same quality", for example JRuby/pom.rb is nicely maintained, unsure for other ones... Thanks T On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 11:35 PM Greg Chabala <[email protected]> wrote: > I have looked into maven-polyglot before, and come to the conclusion that > it is a proof of concept, and something that few if any people actually > use, because: > > 1. Professional programmers are not actually offended by using XML in > the POM, only novices would complain about such a thing. > 2. All tooling will expect a pom.xml, e.g. IDEs, CI tools, linters, etc. > If any of those things are able to handle a polyglot POM in non-XML, > that's > a tiny miracle. > 3. maven-polyglot gets mentioned when people complain about Maven using > XML, as 'look, you don't have to, you can use whatever you want' but no > one > actually does. > 4. The first suspect when something doesn't work right in your build > will always be maven-polyglot, because no one uses it, so it's > potentially not compatible with every plugin. Then you get to convert > back > to pom.xml and try again. So better to skip the effort and stay with > XML in > the first place. >
