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> It's intended as a replacement for _scala_ builds. Having a build definition in the native language [...] makes task customization easier for the maintainer

Totally agree! But the title of the post says "Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala" :) - it certainly looks like better tool for the Scala community.

For projects that are primarily building Java sources, it'd be nice to have a build system that uses Java code to describe the build. I don't think this exists at the moment.




One option is `bld`. They added IntelliJ support since I looked at it last, so that's nice.

https://github.com/rife2/bld




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