[incepted]

> and much faster then my current gig's much smaller Gradle based Java 8 project

Yeah I call BS on that.

Scala's slow compilation doesn't really bother me that much but Java compiles at least ten times faster.

[vorg]

> much faster then my current gig's much smaller Gradle based Java 8 project

> I call BS on that [...] Java compiles at least ten times faster

Then it must be Gradle that's slow, probably the Groovy in it.