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Re:Mill: A Better Build Tool for Java, Scala, & Kotlin by switchbak on Monday July 21, 2025 @11:47PM (#44643049)
Agreed, I don’t think I’d ever choose SBT as a build tool unless I had to.

Also agree on the FP side. It seems compelling at first, but good lord I don’t think it’s worth all the trouble.

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Re:Mill: A Better Build Tool for Java, Scala, & Kotlin by ackfoobar on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @01:41PM (#44650589)
>> FP ZIO/Cats world

> I don’t think it’s worth all the trouble

Once you see the bijection between imperative programming and imperative programming in a monad, you'll be angry for all the wasted hours.

Then again, you'll be able to understand this satire piece, so who's to say if the time was wasted.

http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio...

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