Ask HN: Is it worth the Scala's Ordeal?

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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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It 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.

What 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.

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