Re:The myth of using Scala as a better Java
by frant-hartm on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:10PM
(#13776557)
Yes I do prefer XML.
XML syntax is very simple, has very good IDE support (navigation, autocompletion - thanks to xml schema, etc.. can any IDE autocomplete dependencies from repository in .sbt files?). Maven itself provides good easy ways to reuse the configuration across multiple modules.
If you exclude dependencies than for more complex projects the no of lines in pom.xml build files is somewhere between 50 - 100 % more, so it is not like .sbt (or gradle - which I find superior to both) is 10 times less verbose.
XML syntax is very simple, has very good IDE support (navigation, autocompletion - thanks to xml schema, etc.. can any IDE autocomplete dependencies from repository in .sbt files?). Maven itself provides good easy ways to reuse the configuration across multiple modules.
If you exclude dependencies than for more complex projects the no of lines in pom.xml build files is somewhere between 50 - 100 % more, so it is not like .sbt (or gradle - which I find superior to both) is 10 times less verbose.
Look at play https://github.com/playframework/playframework/blob/master/f... Here is a list of few glyphs from there:
._ := () ++ ++= ]( % target := target.value / "sbt-routes-compiler",
Seriously?