Since the topic seems to have morphed into learning Scala and Lift by immersion in a day, as a recent Scala convert, I can't begin to emphasize how important it is to have the build infrastructure all done in a simple way to let novices focus on Scala. Lift is a good example where you have no choice and just follow magic Maven incantations. Another is Processing in Scala, where you can just do small sketches. If the assumption is that it is the Java crowd which comes to JVM mostly, it doesn't bootstrap non-JVM folks like those coming from Ruby and Haskell/OCaml. So I'm glad David covers the build systems in his book; there should really be an easier way to begin without making choices between Maven, SBT, Buildr, Ant, etc.! Nothing more complex than a good old command line and a Makefile in the same directory... Ideally SBT becomes a part of Scala and you'll have a --make option, or something like that.
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