There's been a lot of innovation in build tools for other languages recently: turborepo, nx, poetry. Also Monorepo build tools like Bazel, Pants, or Buck. Mill aims to bring a lot of those innovations to the JVM ecosystem which is currently dominated by old stalwarts like Maven (circa 2004) or Gradle (2008), which although improving definitely have the weight of legacy holding back their potential
Mill brings things like automatic task caching, side-effect-free build tasks, automatic parallalization, automatic detection of task dependencies, task sandboxing/isolation, and other things that are table stakes in modern build tools, along with a concise strongly typed build language with excellent IDE support to make condiguring your build easy and safe (no more yaml!)
There's been a lot of innovation in build tools for other languages recently: turborepo, nx, poetry. Also Monorepo build tools like Bazel, Pants, or Buck. Mill aims to bring a lot of those innovations to the JVM ecosystem which is currently dominated by old stalwarts like Maven (circa 2004) or Gradle (2008), which although improving definitely have the weight of legacy holding back their potential
Mill brings things like automatic task caching, side-effect-free build tasks, automatic parallalization, automatic detection of task dependencies, task sandboxing/isolation, and other things that are table stakes in modern build tools, along with a concise strongly typed build language with excellent IDE support to make condiguring your build easy and safe (no more yaml!)