post author here, thanks, I think a couple things you said are spot on. In a perfect world I would have discussed Gradle here as well, but I've never actually

post author here, thanks, I think a couple things you said are spot on. In a perfect world I would have discussed Gradle here as well, but I've never actually used it and so that fell out of scope (same with a more thorough treatment of Pantsbuild that I hoped to do). Your articulation of Maven's issues also resonates :) I do experience slow project reloads in IntelliJ (not as much on the SBT CLI), so that's fair. Not a dealbreaker given how much easier (read: more possible?) it is to express the logic I want to express in SBT, but reasonable people can disagree about those tradeoffs :)