Novice here,
It took 70 seconds to see the results of a HelloWorld.Scala program with the "help" of SBT.
I mean, Scala seems to me very appealing, but this kind of process is really depressing.
:)
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Re: Ask HN: Is it worth the Scala's Ordeal?
#2What are your system specifications? Runs in less than a second for me?
> run
[info] Running HelloWorld
Hello, World
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed Feb 23, 2016 11:09:23 PM
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth the Scala's Ordeal?
#3What are your system specifications? Runs in less than a second for me? > run [info] Running HelloWorld Hello, World [success] Total time: 0 s, completed Feb 23, 2016 11:09:23 PM
Subsequent executions took only 1 second. So, I suppose this only happens at first. Thank you for your answer.
Re: Ask HN: Is it worth the Scala's Ordeal?
#4It will take a bit longer on the first run to bootstrap SBT and the environment. After that, it's very fast.
You can try https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier for another factor-of-ten speedup in artifact resolution.