Hi guys ! i've got a question about the java/kotlin/scala world.. I come from PHP symfony, ruby with rails and Elixir with phoenix where the ecosysteme of these lang and framework are quite different in my opinion(don't hate me) and now i work for a company that use java8 with ant/maven and on my free time i've start a rest api with Kotlin + maven because i don't really know anything else yet in java for dependecies management, but everything i look up packages or specific kotlin deps all i see is gradle, gradle plugins, trying my hand to port some in maven to no succes and i was wondering what's the main difference between these 2. Why gradle is so much present with kotlin and is the default vs maven, i want to learn and build my sideproject with the best practices because i think my company will benefit from kotlin for mobile and web instead of java8 + old springboot. My general feeling is that anything related to the JVM is bloated and i'm having a hardtime wrapping my head around everything.
PS if i've written my post in the wrong channel tell me i'll correct the problem