Right and what I was saying was even if it wasnt “public”, single party consent means the person recording can be that single party- so still a non-issue.

Most US states are single party consent. https://recordinglaw.com/united-states-recording-laws/one-party-consent-states/

XML sucks- gradle was a groovy DSL which was very concise and easy, it was quite nice!

I wrote Java and jvm languages for a long time. Mostly a good experience. Maven and later gradle, groovy and spring boot really made it more fun to use. Spock is still my favorite testing framework. These days it’s all python and node for me though- but using those languages and their popular libs really shows how much better dependency management and testing was in the Java ecosystem even 10 years ago.