[fabioz]

The first advantage the homepage lists is:

> Mill can build the same Java codebase 5-10x faster than Maven, or 2-4x faster than Gradle

Speed per se can be a good selling point (having to wait for slow builds is really annoying).

I can't really comment on anything else though as I just stumbled upon it here in HN ;)

[iainmerrick]

The goal should be more like 50x faster than Gradle. Gradle is ludicrously slow (at least in every single Gradle project I’ve had to work with).

[kaba0]

First invocation may be. Subsequent builds are very fast, unless someone decided to write random bullshit into the build scripts that execute at config time, making the config process impure.

[speed_spread]

Are we talking about Maven with its cache extension?

https://github.com/apache/maven-build-cache-extension

Because in my experience, this makes Maven very, very fast.

[ktosobcy]

AFAIR author made quite unfair comparison with simple compile vs full maven build (that executes a lot of additional stuff)

[switchbak]

For Scala (of which this is probably the main target) Maven builds are especially slow. I would not be surprised if that was his early focus.