Apache Ant
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 5, 2025first mention
Jul 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“this was a pleasant discovery when I had to pick up an old Ant based project recently”
“Two other advantages of Ant that MSBuild lacks in a sane way to this day, are macros, and proper documentation.”
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“If you understood the paradigm, you could write branches in Ant files simply using properties”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
Data: apache-ant.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“I used Apache Ant a lot in my early days as a dev”
“this was a pleasant discovery when I had to pick up an old Ant based project recently”
“Two other advantages of Ant that MSBuild lacks in a sane way to this day, are macros, and proper documentation.”
“If you understood the paradigm, you could write branches in Ant files simply using properties”