[ch4s3]

ANTLR may be used in big data query engines but I can’t think of a single language I’ve ever used that had a parser written with it. I know you can grab off the shelf parsers with antlr for a bunch of languages, but who cares?

And frankly, Scala’s build tool is way too slow and would be a slog to use for this book.

[vips7L]

SBT and Scala are the biggest productivity killers for me at work purely based on the slow build time and lack of proper documentation. That and every release the ecosystem makes some breaking change.

[ch4s3]

Yeah, SBT is pretty awful. I feel like Scala suffers from design by committee, and by being the choice language of certain types of Enterprise Software Engineers TM.

[vips7L]

It is not a language for getting things done imo. Even IntelliJ can’t figure out what’s going on sometimes.