[jodersky]

This might be a bit of a shameless plug, but because you ask :)

Regarding no sbt, I would highly recommend to have a look at the mill build tool https://mill-build.org. I personally find it very pleasant to use as a replacement for sbt, mostly because of the following points:

- it uses regular Scala code to define a build

- it isn't DSL-heavy like sbt, which means it's A) easy to debug by simple searching, and B) anyone unfamiliar can get a vague idea of what's going on at a first glance

- it is designed around a generic task graph and isn't centered around the JVM world (disclaimer: I'm helping with development, and recently first-class support for Python and JavaScript projects was added)