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For a while. Eventually we abandoned SBT in favor of pants which is, imho, a much better build tool. It also supports incremental compilation but it was still s

by harryh 10y ago

For a while. Eventually we abandoned SBT in favor of pants which is, imho, a much better build tool. It also supports incremental compilation but it was still slow.

JackFr 10y ago
What was the value proposition of pants? I'm no fan of sbt, but having sunk the cost of getting comfortable with it, what can pants offer?
- harryh 10y ago
  Small compilation units (generally a single directory of files) and a bottom up acyclic specification of dependencies between them.
- hocuspocus 10y ago
  You can check out this talk, given by a Foursquare engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqke8iTuH0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqke8iTuH0 This is pretty much the same concept as Blaze/Bazel or Buck, but from Twitter.
  - harryh 10y ago
    Don't capitalize the S!! (sorry. pet peeve.)
    - hocuspocus 10y ago
      My bad, fixed :)
      - harryh 10y ago
        :)