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Mill as a direct style build tool

JVM build tool that targets Java/Scala/Kotlin and has potential to serve the large-monorepo codebases that Bazel currently serves. Mill has good traction among its users, benchmarks that demonstrate 3-6x faster builds than its competitors, and a unique "direct-style" design that make it easy to use and extend.

React eliminated that tradeoff, letting the developer write "naive" code as if they were re-rendering the entire UI, while automatically optimizing it to be performant and provide a first-class user experience. Rather than being limited to what the build tool has built-in or what third-party plugins someone on the internet has published, you have at your fingertips any library in the huge JVM ecosystem, and can use them in exactly the same way you would in any Java/Scala/Kotlin application. Tools like Gradle, Rake, or Gulp may be written in a single language, but are not direct-style: they still rely on you registering a forest of callbacks performing filesystem mutations, and manually ensuring that they are wired up to converge to the state you want.

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