If Gradle&#x27;s so great, then why does it use a JVM language that wasn&#x27;t considered by Metabase.<p>&gt; The shortlist really came down to “something on the JVM” [...] However, we had a strong aversion to using Java itself, so the real short list was Scala or Clojure<p>Gradle requires the configuration files to be written in Groovy, and is itself written in Java and lots of Groovy.