title: Activator vs sbt
body: <p>I upgraded from Play 2.1.1 to Play 2.3.2.</p>
  
  <p>Now Typesafe has "Activator", which combines the several offerings of their platform.</p>
  
  <p>I installed the "minimal" form of it, which is supposed to download features only as needed.</p>
  
  <p>Then I thought, "Hey, isn't that the point of a build and dependency management tools like, I don't know, SBT?"</p>
  
  <p>I found that I could just go to my Play project and run</p>
  
  <p><code>sbt</code></p>
  
  <p>Does this do something significantly different than running</p>
  
  <p><code>activator</code></p>
  
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  <p>(If I could just use SBT, I'd prefer that, since it has a Debian package, which IMO is easier to manage.)</p>