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This guy loves sbt. For me it's one of the main reasons to use TypeScript instead of Scala.js. npm is so much better. I have been writing a lot of code in Scala.js and Scala about a decade ago, but thinking now of it, I feel only dread. Scala the language is nice enough, but the whole ecosystem around it is so stuffy.

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Give Mill a try.

You need to realize the Scala ecosystem is not monolithic. Things are mostly fine if you stay within a corner, but can get complicated when you start mixing dependencies from multiple domains. I think that is true for many languages. The JVM ecosystem is rich, and that comes at a price.

Oh, didn't hear of it, interesting.

But anyway, I am focusing on the browser these days, and a Scala.js that a) doesn't interoperate with TypeScript b) doesn't allow me to author npm packages is too much of a hassle.

Seconded. Mill is a very versatile build tool. It mainly focuses around modeling builds as DAGs of tasks, and thus allows you to only rerun what is necessary after changes. Other tools like Bazel are built around this model too, but IMO Mill has "taste" in the way it is configured. It also gets out of your way, you can seamlessly integrate it into various shell scripts, and you don't need to make your project revolve around your build tool.

I yearn for maven after having to use sbt the past few years.

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