Mill
Your shiny new Java/Scala build tool! (by lihaoyi)
sbt
sbt, the interactive build tool (by sbt)
| Mill | sbt | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 20 | |
| 1,967 | 4,757 | |
| 0.7% | 0.2% | |
| 9.5 | 9.1 | |
| 1 day ago | 5 days ago | |
| Scala | Scala | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Mill
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mill.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
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Mill project structure
I had filed a GitHub ticket, but it was closed as "out of scope". I'm not sure why the maintainers insisted on perpetuating the ambiguity, and would like to know your opinion about the following. None of the references above answer these very basic and very important questions.
- Version 0.11.0 of the Mill Scala Build Tool is out
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Why is Scala a mildly loved language?
It was my case, but https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill made my life easier
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Potentially picking up Scala for a project after a 5 year hiatus - what's changed?
sbt (lowercase) has improved a lot, but Mill is a serious alternative today.
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Best Scala framework / libraries out there ?
Akka HTTP, Cats, Quill, ninny, Monix Observable, mill.
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Thats my first time with Scala and wanted to create something interesting as first program, so created simple single colored window in LWJGL (which will turn into traingle), next in my tour is password generator, and then wayland implementetion as generated scala code from XML protocols.
Also, many scala folks are not happy with sbt. There's a new build tool on the block Mill - https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill - by Li Haoyi . He's a scala master and he's written a _great_ intro to scala https://www.handsonscala.com/
- Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power (2014)
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Suggestion to learn SBT
I still haven't quite figured out sbt, but as an alternative, the mill build tool is very easy to use and well-documented.
sbt
Posts with mentions or reviews of sbt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-11.
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Declarative Gradle is a cool thing I am afraid of: Maven strikes back
NOTE: I won’t mention SBT and Leiningen here because, with all due respect, they are niche build tools. I also won’t discuss Kobalt for the same reason (besides, it’s no longer actively maintained). Additionally, I won’t touch upon Bazel and Buck in this context, mainly because I’m not very familiar with them. If you have insights or comments about these tools, please feel free to share them in the comments 👇
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Øyvind Berg and John De Goes discuss Bleep, the new config-as-data build tool
Sbt has the primitives that would allow that, but this would change the semantics of the test task. See also testQuick and https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/6292
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Scala Center Roadmap for 2023 and Beyond
If I use IntelliJ then apparently sbtn is not supported and they don't bother with Scala-CLI or Coursier.
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The size of sbt became big
Version 1.3.13 has a size of 1.17 MB in zip
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sbt 1.8.0 released
See scala-xml 2.x mega tracker on plugin ecosystem conflicts.
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sbt 1.7.3 released
This is under discussion at https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/6997
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Make your zip packages for lambdas (and many more use cases) idempotent with a zip-drop-in replacement
See https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/10572 and https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/6235 for more details and context.
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How do i stop git bash from showing the time taken for each command
BTW, if you're curious, it appears OP is using this: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/releases/tag/v1.6.2 Pretty sure one of the executables is doing ANSI colours.
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simplifying sbt with common settings
If you see the progression of documentation changes over the years pushing people towards multi-project style, and issues like https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/6217, hopefully you'd see that I've really tried to encourage people to use multi-project style from the get go.
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sbt 1.5.7 released
Fyi in case anyone is curious, sbt is fully removing log4j going forward: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/6726
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Mill and sbt you can also consider the following projects:
dotty - The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty.
bloop - Bloop is a build server and CLI tool to compile, test and run Scala fast from any editor or build tool.
scalafmt - This repo is now a fork of --->
Wartremover - Flexible Scala code linting tool
Metals - Scala language server with rich IDE features 🚀
Scalastyle - scalastyle
Scalafix - Refactoring and linting tool for Scala
scala-trace-debug - Macro based print debugging. Locates log statements in your IDE.