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		jpliska on Jan 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making the move from Scala to Go The use of the ~ here illustrates the problem in the scala world: a lot of surprising bells and whistles. Why not call it watch instead of ~?

justinhj on Jan 25, 2017 [–]

Or just use IntelliJ and you can reload classes while your program is running if you want. Sbt is a very powerful tool but it's not written with readability for new users in mind.

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