[kaba0]

How is Java’s build tool slow? The single frontend compile step is literally the slowest in a badly architected project we use, even though it goddamn deploys to wildfly!

Java literally compiles as fast as it gets, while npm chews through the same files multiple passes, and goddamn barely does anything yet takes eons of time.

[InsaneOstrich]

Yeah, I have no idea what that person is talking about. I'm in the same situation as you; we can compile hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code in dozens of different jars in less time than it takes for one of our frontend javascript builds to run.