Chapter 9. Polyglot Projects

We are living in an era where one language is not enough. Developers are expected to be polyglot programmers and choose the right tool for a job. While it is always a subjective decision, we try to select languages and ecosystems based on various parameters such as execution speed, developer productivity, available libraries and resources, a team's comfort level with the language, and many more.

When we are already carrying the cognitive load of working with different languages, Gradle turns out to be our good friend, as we don't have to change our build tool even if we are building projects in other languages. We can even use multiple languages in the same project and Gradle orchestrating the build for the entire project. Apart from the array of JVM-based languages, Gradle also supports C, C++, Objective C and others to produce native applications as well. Gradle is also an official build tool for the Android platform. The list of supported languages is on the...