11 engineers on Hacker News describe using sbt first-hand: 2 endorse it, 7 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I don't really mind sbt, but ... maybe the fact that sbt builds can look so different is an issue.”
mixed · production · aeroevan · 2025-02-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The last time I tried Scala it was horrendous. SBT? Seriously? Binary incompatibility between minor versions?”
regret · personal · StreamBright · 2021-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we were able to make the relevant integration and fault tests scale from local runs via SBT to full geo-distributed clusters”
endorse · production · freels · 2018-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“SBT cannot run with 512 ram, so you cannot compile locally.”
regret · production · brianwawok · 2016-02-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“SBT is super slow compared to maven”
regret · production · 1 yr · Sphax · 2014-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“getting SBT and Play Java to work correctly in IDEA was enough of a pain”
regret · personal · matrix · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all the opportunity costs represented in sbt (which is finally passable but no better)”
regret · production · kasey_junk · 2013-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I -love- SBT and I detest the XML-hell at the heart of Maven projects.”
endorse · production · brightsize · 2012-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for our production systems building in SBT, a typical test run is significantly less than 10 seconds”
neutral · production · NickPollard · 2013-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?