Does it support source dependencies over stupid jar files?

Why not use a fast language like C, Odin, Hare or Zig?

Observables aren't magic. They're just shit.

It has no "selling" points. If it had any pecuniary cost nobody would use it.

I mean you still use Java, so you seem to really like sticking to your tools!

I love programming in Java!

I also still breathe air. What's your point? Java is a useful language with many excellent features and a standard library that is better than any other standard library in any other language (fight me on this). It has a thriving ecosystem, with many excellent high quality resources.

I use astronvim and still don't know how to get Purescript to work.

Why wouldn't you feel bad for the person having to write Go after you? Makes no sense to me

Neither sentence of your post has any value to anybody, other than (possibly, dubiously) yourself. Next time, consider writing such comments in your personal journal, or perhaps just shouting them out loud when you're alone.

I’ve been using Bun for a year. It works.

Whether or not one thinks C++ is a "good" language, I always thought that (original) Minecraft busted the myth that blockbuster games had to be written in C++.

Being written in Java was probably instrumental in enabling the huge modding community around Minecraft. Which in turn was probably in large part responsible for its success.

And more to the point for this thread, writing it in Java let Notch build and iterate extremely quickly. Minecraft originally came out of a 24 hour game writing competition in which most competitors were using C++, but Notch always used Java because coding speed was the most critical thing in that context.

It should have been written in C#, instead, the developers had to resort to silly optimization tricks that often never transpired.

PureScript is arguably the prettiest functional programming language and it compiles to JS (or Erlang, or C++, or Go, or Chez Scheme, or Kotlin, or C)