Re:From First Principles: Why Scala?
by the_af on Thursday February 11, 2021 @09:52AM
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To me, sbt is confusing as hell.
I no longer program in Scala, but I used to for my previous job and I regularly came across build files I couldn't understand -- and when I asked the person who wrote them, they couldn't explain their build properly either.
And this happened in enough cases that I wouldn't consider it an exception or a problem with a particular developer. SBT used to have two entirely separate syntaxes, and it was a mess translating from one to the other. I don't know if this is still the case (I know one of the two syntaxes got deprecated, can't remember which one now).
I no longer program in Scala, but I used to for my previous job and I regularly came across build files I couldn't understand -- and when I asked the person who wrote them, they couldn't explain their build properly either.
And this happened in enough cases that I wouldn't consider it an exception or a problem with a particular developer. SBT used to have two entirely separate syntaxes, and it was a mess translating from one to the other. I don't know if this is still the case (I know one of the two syntaxes got deprecated, can't remember which one now).