Language

A few considerations when choosing a language:

1. community
2. ease-of-use
3. type-safety
4. reasonable package and build system

Java

Java has all these qualities, more or less. The JVM has been tested for a billion years. IntelliJ is a powerful editor.

Maven is ubiquitous, but tedious. My favorite build system is Bazel, which fortunately supports Maven dependencies:

• https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/be/workspace.html#maven_jar
• https://github.com/bazelbuild/examples/tree/master/java-maven

Setup

1. Install per Bazel docs. Note 4GB RAM recommended.
2. Install IntelliJ plugin

Feedback

Thoughts? Suggestions? Hit me up @erikeldridge

License

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