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sbt | Mill | |
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20 | 8 | |
4,748 | 1,953 | |
0.2% | 0.6% | |
9.1 | 9.6 | |
2 days ago | 2 days ago | |
Scala | Scala | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.
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.
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 I also won’t discuss Kobalt for the same reason (besides, it’s no longer actively maintained).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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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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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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What's your preferred setup/process (IDE, settings, etc) for working in Scala?
Do you know that there is now --no-server flag that works around the pesky sbt server is already booting issue.
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Scala is a Maintenance Nightmare
More cats specific stuff here: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/releases/tag/v1.5.0-RC2
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Can't get sbt 1.4.x to work
Downloaded the ZIP from the downloads page (https://github.com/sbt/sbt/releases/download/v1.4.7/sbt-1.4.7.zip) and extracted it. It is the method I've been using since sbt 0.13 days
Do you have any reference? The download page mentions JDK 8 (https://www.scala-sbt.org/download.html) and I can't find anything in the releases page (https://github.com/sbt/sbt/releases). The Installing sbt on macOS page (https://www.scala-sbt.org/1.x/docs/Installing-sbt-on-Mac.html) says "Follow the link to install JDK 8 or 11"
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Scala Native 0.4.0 is out!
SBTc -- https://github.com/sbt/sbt/pull/5620
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.
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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/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sbt and Mill 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 --->
Metals - Scala language server with rich IDE features 🚀
Wartremover - Flexible Scala code linting tool
scala-trace-debug - Macro based print debugging. Locates log statements in your IDE.
Scalastyle - scalastyle
Scurses - Scurses, terminal drawing API for Scala, and Onions, a Scurses framework for easy terminal UI