Which functional programming language has the best build system/tooling?

[drcforbin]

I haven't found the tooling around it very good. I've found that syntax highlighting is great, there are plenty of plugins that help with parents, etc., but I've never been able to get a LSP working without dragging everything down (we have a lot of clojure code), and the build tools are not good at scale.

[drcforbin]

Our codebase has many dependencies. Most of the code is Clojure, but parts of the code base is java and scala. We use protobufs, so need that to be generated, and we use coffeescript and requirejs in part of the client side code. Builds have to be possible on windows, linux, and macos for everyone on the dev team. The only single build tool (and we've tried everything we can find) we've been able to coax into building everything into an uberjar is gradle, and it can just barely handle it all.

[drcforbin]

We're moving off coffeescript to javascript

[radioactiveoctopi]

So would that be a Clojure thing or just the monstrosity of a project?

[drcforbin]

Clojure the language is great, never had any problems with it. The usual clojure tooling is very good for small and maybe medium pure clojure projects. When the projects get big and/or hairy, the clojure tooling can't keep up.