[pebers]

The improvement is good, of course, but isn't the whole thing a bit of a straw man? The previous version taking 55 seconds on a Pi 3 seems utterly unacceptable to me, it's actually a pretty capable processor, and even a 15 second startup is pretty slow. Why put up with that when there are modern options (Go and Rust spring to mind) which would do so much better?

[imtringued]

Because not everyone cares about the startup time of an application on a platform that is 10 times slower than an intel CPU from 2012 when the application runs for more than a minute?

Also why are you even considering go as modern? The best compiled alternative to java is D and it's possible to disable the stop the world pause for specific threads by detaching them from the runtime which make it useful for realtime workloads while still being able to take advantage of the GC to boost your productivity when determinism is not important.

[35bge57dtjku]

I don't think that's what 'straw man' means.

[djhworld]

It's a website that's for personal use (a dashboard), I don't update it that often.