Why should one use Grunt over Gulp?

Why would anyone choose Grunt instead of Gulp as build system?

If you had asked this question a year back, I would have said "Availability of more grunt plugins", but this doesn't hold true today. Gulp is better than Grunt in every aspect, but is more code driven. If you want to be configuration driven rather than code you are better off with Grunt.

Honestly. I don't know. Maybe,... because they don't know gulp?

To be honest I started with grunt, too. Beacause some boilerplates used it, and it was the first build system I heard of. But gulp has a nicer and easier syntax and is way faster.

I still can't figure out how to set-up Gulp :( I have NPM,Node,Bower installed. I had Gulp installed once I think? I deleted the folder though and yeah. I just can't figure it out. I am only a few months into my webdev path though. I have Koala to minify but I still can figure out SASS and how to make Gulp automate.

Gulp is faster, cleaner, easier to maintain, plugins are optional. Besides Grunt is barely maintained. Its last stable commit on gihub is from 6 months ago, and a lot of grunt plugins are totally outdated.

Personally I do not use neither of them anymore. I've found npm scripts and webpack a better combination for almost every use case I used gulp.

I prefer gulp, I feel the syntax is clearer!

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