Mastering Functional Programming

SBT build tool

SBT is a build tool for Scala. It is a dedicated build tool developed specifically for Scala. It is possible to integrate Scala with Gradle or Maven, and in fact, this is an option that many teams prefer to do. SBT is supposed to be simple, but in fact, it is the precise opposite of simple. If you decide to use SBT as your Scala build tool, be advised that it possesses a complex infrastructure and is not well documented.

However, it is rather powerful. It allows you to write build descriptions in a subset of the Scala language. This means that your build scripts are Scala programs in themselves. This is not something you get with build tools, such as Gradle or Maven.

For this book, we do not need to be familiar with SBT. The ...