See [Architecture decisions records](standards) for the list of ADRs.
Be aware these are very technical descriptions of the decisions, and you might find the documentation below more useful as an introduction to the internals of Gradle.

## Platform architecture

Gradle is arranged into several coarse-grained components called "platforms".

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        # Override automatic language detection by changing the below list
        # Supported options are ['csharp', 'cpp', 'go', 'java', 'javascript', 'python']
        language: ['java', 'javascript']
        # Learn more...

Gradle is arranged into coarse-grained components called "architecture modules" and "platforms".
See [ADR4](standards/0004-use-a-platform-architecture.md) for a definition of these terms.

The diagram below shows the current set of architecture modules and platforms:

<!-- This diagram is generated. Use `./gradlew :architectureDoc` to update it -->
```mermaid
    graph TD

    subgraph core["core platform"]

- Worker processes. Long-running daemon processes that the Gradle daemon starts to run specific kinds of work, such as compilation or test execution.

The diagram below shows the relationships between the different processes:

```mermaid
    graph LR
        
        gradle["Gradle CLI client"]
    
        gradlew["Gradlew CLI client"]
    
        subgraph IDE