Video by Li Haoyi (author of Mill build tool) showcasing some advantages of mill vs maven and gradle on the jvm ecosystem.

  • smoredahl
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    1 day ago

    Do you use Metals? I tried mill a few months ago and liked the tool itself but couldn’t get it to cooperate well with Metals.

    • Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyz
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      Yes. Also I’m using Zed editor. So getting the three to work together was a puzzle, as this combo lacks documentation, but now it’s working fine.
      I recall it helped to force bloop re-install ( ./mill --import ivy:com.lihaoyi::mill-contrib-bloop: mill.contrib.bloop.Bloop/install ) Can also use metals doctor - but to see that needed to add to zed settings to enable metals http interface. Maybe if sbt also hangs around (if you try both) the editor resets bloop and its gets confused - you have to disable one.

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        1 day ago

        Okay! I teach Scala and right now we’re using SBT, but it could be nice to offer students an alternative.