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Using SBT with Scala is certainly encouraged, but you can use other build tools. At work we're successfully using gradle without too many problems. The only thi
by denis1 10y ago
Using SBT with Scala is certainly encouraged, but you can use other build tools. At work we're successfully using gradle without too many problems. The only things that are slightly weird are the not-so-perfect plugins for gradle, but that is understandable considering they are mostly community driven (sometimes only a one person even).
- vorg 10y ago> the not-so-perfect plugins for gradle Could be because Gradle up to version 2.x provided only Groovy for writing plugins and build scripts. Gradle 3.0 was released a few months ago, and provides both Kotlin and Groovy for plugins and builds, and even prefers Kotlin for writing plugins. Perhaps the "not-so-perfect" situation will change as plugin providers switch over. I recently looked into Groovy's apparent popularity at #17 on the TIOBE ranking and found Baidu was giving a result 12 times too high and Yahoo a result 20 times too high, both of which would skew the ranking. Groovy's real ranking is somewhere below that of #50 ranked Clojure. These results are being used to promote Groovy as successful to the Apache Software Foundation directorship. I can understand Gradleware wanting to switch to a language with a seemingly more honest approach to promotion.