Quarkus rocks with native but native are not the only thing that rocks in Quarkus. A thread... Build time init-first - It might be controversial but being able to gain 5-15% more performance by optimize logging and making Hibernate live reload in sub-seconds all come from this. This repeats for all Quarkusified libraries - it has a massive compounding effect.

So 56% was wrong. All of these uses eclipse JDT in some way to provide their Java support.

You might not like the UX of Eclipse IDE but your other IDE wouldn’t work without it’s continued existence.

https://twitter.com/maxandersen/status/1394422347403304961

And before someone says so - yes IntelliJ does not *require* eclipse JDT but have you tried enabling it as intellijs compiler ? Speed is much better; you can get error messages for the whole project and you can run code without having everything compile. It’s liberating :)

1/ Tips and tricks for writing java cli apps in 2020, a thread... 2/ There are a lot of little small things to deal with when writing cli apps that looks and behave nicely - the following are some of the things I've used and/or found out while writing jbang...