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com-lihaoyi / mill

mill

A better build tool for Java, Scala and Kotlin: Simpler than Maven, easier than Gradle, with 3-7x faster dev workflows than other JVM build tools

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11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.8KGitHub stars
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What it is

A better build tool for Java, Scala and Kotlin: Simpler than Maven, easier than Gradle, with 3-7x faster dev workflows than other JVM build tools

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-01-02 21:55:42 UTC to 2024-10-29 08:35:31 UTC.

0123452018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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> CoC controversy and censorship Could you write a few sentences about this? What happened? What do you think should have happened instead? > scalaz/cats debacle Again, for the unfamiliar, what is this debacle? > the breaking changes they need What are those? > murder sbt to death yes pls! ( https://github.com/lihaoyi/mill is actively maintained and developed and seems to be the sane replacement for sbt )
In The Last Hope for Scala's Infinity War [video]
Note that while Mill's first target is Scala builds (as an alternative to SBT) there isn't much reason why Mill shouldn't be usable for other JVM/non-JVM languages too. Mill's core is basically a dependency-graph-based caching task-runner, similar to Bazel, which happens to be written in Scala (rather than Skylark). Scala+Java support is just a bunch of helper methods built on top of that. It should be pretty trivial to make it work for Java-only projects (https://github.com/lihaoyi/mill/issues/145) or write the necessary helper methods to make it work for other languages or platforms.
In Mill: Better Scala Builds

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