It has only three letters and its on the .com top-level domain. That’s it.

So this is a man-in-the-middle attack waiting to happen isn’t it? Buy the domain, setup a reverse proxy that points to the original hexbear server IP and start logging all requests.

Here are a couple of reasons:

• C and C++ projects often predate Gradle by decades they will not change their build system without a compelling reason.
• Gradle is written in Java and requires a Java Runtime.
• At least for C++, CMake has pretty much become the standard build tool.
• Dependency resolution on Linux was ‘solved’ by relying on the distribution. Today, there also exist package managers for C and C++ like vcpkg or conan and they also integrate with CMake.