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Are you actually using this in a non-trivial application?

The recurring complain I hear about scala are the bad compile times. I haven't used the language much, so not sure if this only applies to libraries that heavily use compile time metaprogramming.

But I really love that with modern tooling we can get a sub-second editor->browser feedback loop even for a three year old medium-large project on modern hardware. This was primarily one of the reasons I avoided Kotlin+Gradle JS target because among other issues the feedback loop was 2-3x slower.



I have a medium sized project with it and the initial compile can be slow, however every recompile usually has the page updated as I switch from my editor to it. Not as fast as TS, but worth it for the much better programming language. Tyrian also makes it trivial to set up hot-reload with preserved state.


Ok, this is interesting. I'll try this out in a small project.




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