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pixi
Powerful system-level package manager for Linux, macOS and Windows written in Rust – building on top of the Conda ecosystem.
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Mill
A better build tool for Java, Scala and Kotlin: Simpler than Maven, easier than Gradle, with 3-7x faster dev workflows than other JVM build tools
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os-lib
OS-Lib is a simple, flexible, high-performance Scala interface to common OS filesystem and subprocess APIs
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cask
Cask: a Scala HTTP micro-framework. Cask makes it easy to set up a website, backend server, or REST API using Scala (by lihaoyi)
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pekko
Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications using Java/Scala
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Hence, a higher number means a better scala-cli alternative or higher similarity.
scala-cli discussion
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-18.
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A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
It defines a DSL for your build that looks roughly like Scala code. But… it’s not! And there is a confusing “resolution” system for build tasks/settings. It’s also slow as shit. See https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html for a comprehensive takedown. If you’re interested in just playing around with scala I would use
https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org
Or for larger projects, the thing the author of the linked article is plugging (mill).
- Java in the Small
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Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala
Scala CLI has replaced the default runner since Scala 3.5, so you can effectively do `scala run`, `scala fmt`, and so on. On the Java side, I believe JBang provides a very similar developer experience.
Fundamentally it's hard to reconcile both worlds though. Building non-trivial multi-module projects on the JVM is inherently complex especially when you throw in multiple build targets, multiple toolchains, multiple platforms...
With simpler build tools (like in Go or Rust) you shift this complexity elsewhere, typically in a Makefile and/or a Docker/OCI based build pipeline, and these can get pretty complex too. Let alone distributed build tools like Bazel.
- https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org
- https://www.jbang.dev
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Data Engineering with Scala: Mastering Real-Time Data Processing with Apache Flink and Google Pub/Sub
First of all, the development of our data pipeline will not be based on SBT projects. We will use the Scala CLI, a command-line tool that allows compile, run, test and package Scala code. Based on the Scala CLI, we can develop Scala scripts in a very practical and fast way!
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- Engenharia de Dados com Scala: masterizando o processamento de dados em tempo real com Apache Flink e Google Pub/Sub
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Modern Java/JVM Build Practices
That has not much to do with the JVM. See Scala CLI[1] for instance, the developer experience is pretty similar to Cargo.
The thing is, with any non-trivial project, zero to hello world isn't a very useful metric. Gradle (and Maven, sbt, ...) do a lot more than Cargo, and their usage is primarily optimized for complex multi-modules projects.
[1] https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org
- Engenharia de Dados com Scala: aprenda a fazer webscraping dos filmes mais assistidos da Netflix em cada país
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Scala CLI v1.0.5 is out!
Scala CLI v1.0.5 was released. https://github.com/VirtusLab/scala-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.5 This includes:
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No-GIL mode coming for Python
The new official Scala build tool / compiler front end (scala-cli) is amazing,
https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/
The thing that really struck me after years of python is how it lets you out dependencies directly in a comment on top of a script and it will download and run with them automatically, without poisoning any system settings. It's so simple!
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