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Re:Java Is Underhyped by stepbeek on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:45AM (#26834512)
How large is the codebase? I moved to kotlin from scala and find the compilation to be rapid in comparison.

Fwiw, I’m normally on a beefy desktop so I might just be brute forcing this issue.

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Re:Java Is Underhyped by cs-szazz on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:55PM (#26836312)
11,503 files, 1,431,195 lines of code. (spread out over <50 Gradle modules).

I think the main problem is that Gradle doesn't have the same support as Java for ABI compatible changes, so invalidation of modules are more common.

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Re:Java Is Underhyped by stepbeek on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:30AM (#26861981)
This article points to ABI as an open optimization problem in kotlin:

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/09/the-dark-secrets-o...

I think you're right - ABI compatible changes are likely the culprit.

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