It might be, but it still has it's merits. It was one of the first, and many other improved tools can't work without it's repositories.
I still like the IDE support for MVN: e.g. IntelliJ draws a nice dependency diagram that I find useful, even if I don't use Maven for something else in a project.
Maybe it's biggest mistake was that dependencies are global by default, and not local (like Node's NPM). If the dependency structure would have been local to a project, than many of the pain points I encountered with MVN in the past wouldn't have even existed.
It might be, but it still has it's merits. It was one of the first, and many other improved tools can't work without it's repositories.
I still like the IDE support for MVN: e.g. IntelliJ draws a nice dependency diagram that I find useful, even if I don't use Maven for something else in a project.
Maybe it's biggest mistake was that dependencies are global by default, and not local (like Node's NPM). If the dependency structure would have been local to a project, than many of the pain points I encountered with MVN in the past wouldn't have even existed.