Migration of the `serial` library to Gradle #235

Job	Run time
Test Processing	4m 52s
(linux/x64) Create Processing Build	10m 35s
(macos/aarch64) Create Processing Build	5m 14s
(windows/x64) Create Processing Build	8m 33s
(macos/x64) Create Processing Build	8m 50s
(linux/aarch64) Create Processing Build	8m 34s
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