[AheadOfTime295]

If this Principle of Least Power had been applied to sbt, what would have been the result? Compilation times depend on scalac and not so much sbt.

Perhaps Scala adoption would be higher today. Assuming no competitors (Kotlin) had gained momentum.

[nikitaga]

Probably something like https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill

(2017) https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html

(2018) https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/MillBetterScalaBuilds.html