maven

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Garry is a true nerd, a social maven, a serial helper. He's the kind of person that you want beside you in a foxhole.

The "based on Ant/maven" building design was a decent call I think, I get why they made it when they did, but it did cost them some things. The NB team has shored up the editors quite a bit so I think most is caught now during editing.

You need to depend on tools like maven, and ivy to manage your dependencies, and this just brings in more dependencies into your project which results in projects being huge. I had some war files 100MB+ war files for the simplest web apps.

Org, a maven repo and documentation host for scala stuff. He's recently decided to transition off much of his scala involvement, in part because his new startup visi.

That said, the Java platform has an incredible ecosystem around it; using maven gives me the feeling I'm in Manhattan and can plug into an infinite library of amazing stuff. The .

I'll take rigid maven any day. Much preferable to some cobbled together build system that is undocumented and hard to reliably reproduce.

This release they made progress by creating an incremental compilation system called Zinc that is shared by Eclipse, maven, and most recently, IntelliJ. They have also said that there is no easy fix on the horizon. Improvements will take time and likely continue to be incremental in the near future.