Scala-cli Alternatives

scala-cli reviews and mentions

• A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
  22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2025

  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
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2024
• Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2024

  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

• Data Engineering with Scala: Mastering Real-Time Data Processing with Apache Flink and Google Pub/Sub
  3 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2024

  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!

• Why Haskell?
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2024
• Engenharia de Dados com Scala: masterizando o processamento de dados em tempo real com Apache Flink e Google Pub/Sub
  3 projects | dev.to | 8 Aug 2024
• Modern Java/JVM Build Practices
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2024

  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
  5 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2023
• Scala CLI v1.0.5 is out!
  1 project | /r/scala | 28 Oct 2023

  Scala CLI v1.0.5 was released. https://github.com/VirtusLab/scala-cli/releases/tag/v1.0.5 This includes:

• No-GIL mode coming for Python
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2023

  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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