Mill build is still my favorite least-hated build tool. (Here is my outdated introduction to it.) In this blog post I show how to use the Mill build to speed up builds on branches.

I am using Bitbucket pipelines in this post. And I’m a newcomer at that =).

Yes, you still can run Internet Explorer, even the all might Internet Explorer 6, on Windows 11! Disclosure: I did work years ago on the mentioned product. I am biased.

Here are the steps:

I used this technique a surprising amount of times to find out an issue. It all starts with a hanging Java program: a build tool, some Java based server, etc.

The first thing I do in this case is to take a stack trace. For example with jstack

This post is part of C# Advent Calendar 2024. Visit it for all the awesome upcoming posts! It was released on 11 December as a substitution for the 8th December spot, as another blogger couldn’t make it.

The traditional C# Advent is here. It also seems tradition I talk about some testing aspect ^[1] or some outsider view approach to C# ^[2] here. Let’s not break this tradition and I share some more testing tips.

Here are some challenges and pitfalls I ran into when using Mill.