Avoid Mistakes
I have to admit that I didn’t learn about using build tools until long after I had learned the basics of programming. I knew there was such a thing as build tools, but I did not think I had enough time to learn about them. The build tools that I was aware of at the time were Ant and make. This excerpt is the first line from the Ant website:
Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.
I still can’t figure out what that means, so I’m not surprised that I decided not to learn more about build tools at the time. I’m not surprised, but I lost a lot of time and productivity. I was building a web application
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