[johnisgood]

What could possibly be wrong with the setup though that would cause it? I have a couple of dependencies, including libGDX, artemis-odb, and kotlin-stdlib-jdk8.

I posted it in another comment, but I am willing to record it when my time allows. It is quite baffling. I never encountered such slow compilation times even though I compiled some C++ projects before.

[The_rationalist]

Nit: you don't need to specify kotlin stdlib since Kotlin 1.4

[johnisgood]

Thank you!

[winrid]

One of my projects mentioned also uses libgdx. Have you tried the libgdx discord? The community is pretty helpful.

[johnisgood]

It is not my codebase, I had to clean it up. I managed to do it though and it basically looks like every other libGDX project. I can even create a single JAR file that works! I am pretty happy about that. Everything is up to date, and I am converting the codebase from Java to Kotlin. Still a long way to go, but we (my partner and I) will get there. :)

By the way: I also use `googleJavaFormat` and `ktlint` to format both Java and Kotlin files. I also pack textures before running the game.

In any case, my old hardware may be at fault here, or the fact that I also run multiple things in the background, or that I run a couple of Gradle tasks, or a combination of these things.