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As someone moving into Scala, with previous work experience mainly in Python and a University grounding in Java (which only briefly touched on Ant, Maven etc.).
by frio 16y ago
As someone moving into Scala, with previous work experience mainly in Python and a University grounding in Java (which only briefly touched on Ant, Maven etc.)., I could not agree more. Getting Scala up and running cleanly and figuring out how to properly lay out and start a new project has been somewhat nightmarish, especially on Windows.
That said, however, when I moved from Maven to sbt, everything became a lot easier.
- mjw 16y agoYep, sbt is nice. Hopefully it'll get official blessing at some point. sbaz (their package management / repository system) was a bit of a disappointment, though, in that people aren't really using it (the last time I checked anyway). And you end up having to learn maven anyway (or at least maven repositories?) in order to depend on other java or scala libraries that use it.
- technomancy 16y ago> And you end up having to learn maven anyway (or at least maven repositories?) Minor nitpick, but there is a big difference between learning Maven vs learning how to use maven repositories.