Box has migrated its large Scala monorepo, containing 360 modules, from the sbt build tool to Gradle, publishing a post-mortem on its engineering blog about the architectural and organizational...

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        "excerpt": "The LLM is strong in this, but still an interesting read.\n\n Yet I'm wondering: 8 years of engineering effort because \"we're just misusing sbt\"?\n\n Also the whole story smells like a global migration to Bazel / Buck would have been the right move. But I don't know the details of course. So that's just a gut feeling extrapolated from the stated goals.\n\n Besides that, this just nicely shows how fucked",
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