# ADR-0009 - Use American English

## Status

- ACCEPTED on 2025-11-24

## Context

Gradle is an international open-source project with contributors from around the world. English is the primary language for code, comments, documentation, and communication, but there are variations in English spelling and terminology, specifically American English vs. British English.

Inconsistency in spelling conventions can lead to several issues:

# ADR-0002 - Avoid using Java serialization

## Status

- ACCEPTED on 2023-12-01

## Context

In Gradle we often need to serialize in-memory objects for caching, or to transmit them across process barriers, etc.
Java serialization is one way to implement this, however, despite its simplicity of implementation, it has several drawbacks:

- **Performance:**
Java's built-in serialization mechanism is often slower compared to other serialization solutions.

    .build();
client.newCall(newYorkTimesRequest).enqueue(new Callback() {
  ...
});
```

Running this race over home WiFi shows the Times (`0002`) completes just slightly sooner than the Post (`0001`):

```
0001 https://www.washingtonpost.com/
0001 0.000 callStart
0002 https://www.nytimes.com/
0002 0.000 callStart
0002 0.010 dnsStart
0001 0.013 dnsStart
0001 0.022 dnsEnd
0002 0.019 dnsEnd