[throwaway020623]

I think we have different ideas about what a good development environment is, and that is ok. We have our preferences and we can't argue with that.

I would like to comment on how you feel Java compilation is slow. Incremental compilation while developing is fast and doesn't affect my productivity (your experience may differ).

Triggering a single threaded full build with one of my services (1000+ files and 80k lines) took less than 30 seconds on my laptop (18s with parallel compilation). But I never do that locally, as incremental compilations are almost instant.

If you need to download dependencies and run tests, the number is higher, but that is not specific for Java