[mrudolph22]

I gave Mill a try earlier this year. My hope was to escape the nightmare that is Gradle, which I've been using for many years. Mill sounds great in theory (except for the Scala DSL). Unfortunately, I couldn't get a basic Java build to work in half a day, even though I have (admittedly rusty) working knowledge of Scala. It was one obscure error after another. My conclusion was that Java support isn't ready. There was also very little documentation on how to build Java.

In my opinion, using a GPL as the build language of a polyglot build tool is a dead end, both for technical/usability reasons and because the ensuing language wars can't be won. I'm looking forward to the day when a build tool embraces a modern config language such as CUE or Pkl.

[lihaoyi]

Depending on when you tried, it could be worth trying again: support for Java has improved greatly in the last few months, as have the documentation. Come by our discord channel if you get stuck and i can help unblock you

[mrudolph22]

Thanks for the offer! I’ll give Mill another shot the next time Gradle drives me crazy. :-)

[zcw100]

I've had the same gripe about having to keep up with a second language just for the build tool for a while. Try taking a look at JeKa https://jeka.dev/