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Conor gives a fascinating summary of the development of Ant. I found the bits about Ant2 particularly interesting. Devoted followers of ant-dev might already know that several efforts competed to become Ant2. All of them have died.
Instead, the developers decided to evolutionary improve Ant 1.x.