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Eddie Horniman unexpectedly inherit his father’s sizable country estate — only to discover it’s part of a cannabis empire. What's more, a host of unsavory characters from Britain’s criminal underworld want a piece of the operation…

Determined to extricate his family from their clutches, Eddie tries to play the gangsters at their own game.

We just released bld 1.9.0, the pure Java build tool for developers who don't like dealing with build tools:

• Improvements and clarifications to bld create commands
• Improvements to Visual Studio Code templates
• Updated dependency versions in project templates

The following extensions have also been updated:

• bld Checkstyle extension
• bld Command Line Execution extension
• bld Detekt extension
• bld Generated Version extension
• bld JaCoCo Report extension
• bld Kotlin extension
• bld PIT Mutation Testing extension
• bld PMD extension
• bld Property File extension
• bld Spring Boot extension
• bld TestNG extension

Getting started has never been easier, either manually or using SDKMAN!, Homebrew or JBang :

• bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://rife2.com/bld/create.sh)"
• sdk install bld
• brew install rife2/tools/bld
• jbang com.uwyn.rife2:bld:1.9.0

If using your build tool feels like pulling hair out, you should definitely give bld a try and reach a new zen.

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