I'm not a Java person, but I'm curious how fast it is nowadays, and also the startup time. Can it be used to write shell commands with, for example?
JEP 540: Simple JSON API
> trailing commas and comments are not supported
Be strict in what you produce, be lenient in what you accept.
Grr.
It's really refreshing to see the pace of Java development pick up so much over the past few years.
The last few years of server-side has been on Kotlin for me, however, modern Java is looking more and more like anything I'd need in a language.