Re:Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala
by hocuspocus on Monday October 28, 2024 @01:15PM
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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.
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