Java will never become a player in CLI tooling until build packaging becomes first class. Go, Rust, and other languages are so common because their build tooling is dead simple. You can easily get a single file distributable in a single command. go build, cargo build, dotnet publish —-self-contained.
Java on the other hand makes it impossible to get a single distributable. There is no way to get your jar + the vm into a binary. You could use graal native image, but build times are super slow, use too many resources, and it’s non-trivial to get working.
Build tooling in the Java ecosystem just isn’t good enough.
Java on the other hand makes it impossible to get a single distributable. There is no way to get your jar + the vm into a binary. You could use graal native image, but build times are super slow, use too many resources, and it’s non-trivial to get working.
Build tooling in the Java ecosystem just isn’t good enough.