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  1. Yuna @[email protected] ·

    Dear Gradle, Why So Stubborn?
    Do I do something wrong?

    Watching juniors try to set up a project and being greeted by cryptic stack traces like it's some kind of initiation ritual.

    `Unsupported class file major version 61`
    `invalid CEN header zip64 no access package`, ...

    Java can compile code for older versions just fine.
    It's literally designed for that.
    Oh why, must Gradle behave like a bitter librarian who refuses to hand over a book unless I whisper the exact Dewey Decimal Code?
    Every other Language will laugh again at java, seeing this.

    💡 Why is Gradle bound to a java version? And if Gradle knows it needs Java 11… why doesn't it just do this for me?
    Like using `/usr/libexec/java_home -v 11` in background?

    🤖 Is there a clean way to force Gradle into submission without adding another tool like SDKMAN or jabba or YunaBraska/gradle-java-fix or whatever the trendy painkiller of the week is?

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