Well, it’s very new, only dreamed up a year ago and still very much in development. But the presentation at NE Scala impressed me a lot. It’s rapidly catching up in terms of important everyday capability: the only task I do routinely that clearly wasn’t there yet was Eclipse project export. And since Chris went back to basics and rethought the APIs, I found the build descriptions not just clearer than the sbt DSL, but rather clearer than sbt’s plain-Scala files – it just makes sense. Not to mention that, in some respects, it already works much better than sbt – for example, it keeps things warm in the background with Nailgun, so the load/run cycle is surprisingly fast.
No, it’s not yet ready for me to adopt it in production. But it’s moving rapidly enough, and so far looks good enough, that I’m keeping a close eye on it, and am hoping to be able to make the jump within the next year…