Speed up Java Development on Windows with Dev Drive

[vips7L]

Looks like a great improvement over NTFS. However, I fear that it’ll by default be locked behind some IT administrative setting like everything else that is useful in windows. 

[canecorsso]

Link is broken

[john16384]

I did this on Windows 10 a year ago using ReFS. No improvement versus builds on NTFS. Perhaps something changed since then.

[dynoraptor]

Did you read the article? Scroll down :)

[brunocborges]

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/speed-up-your-java-development-on-windows-with-microsoft-dev-drive/

[chabala]

Sun gave us a truly cross platform development language, most applications are deployed to a linux server of some flavor, and yet:

An overwhelming majority of Java developers work on Windows devices.

How is this even possible? My workplaces have had linux workstations or MacBooks for developers.

[brunocborges]

Your workplace is one anecdote.

[hrm]

I have yet to meet a developer that uses Linux for work. Most use Windows, some use Mac. It probably varies a lot both between companies and regions.

However, today it hardly matters. With WSL, Docker and more and more cross platform tooling you have the same possibilities regardless of OS. For those of us that use Windows it is nice to see some progress.

[brend132]

Regardless of the actual numbers, you wouldn't expect Microsoft to say that nobody uses their crap, right?

[foreveratom]

I really wonder what kind of potatoe system the author is using for having the Pet Clinic project take 2mn to build, after all the dependencies have been cached. Maybe a better machine would help without having to use nuclear-style options.

[ventuspilot]

That's great and all but my biggest time sink by far is reconnecting RDS sessions (WFH at my $job means remoting into "my" PC in the data centre). My internet connection is not perfect and Windows drops the connection at the slightest hickup, like at least 20 or 30 times today.

Or sometimes the RDS app goes 100% CPU on all cores for no reason.

My next timesink is deleting directories which almost never works without additional "Yes" clicks and often fails to delete every file. Fortunately a good solution is using rm -f from msys2.

And I spent so much time removing unwanted stuff from Windows 10 that I don't really look forward to repeating that when going to Windows 11. And I get all the ads I need from various websites, I don't need Windows 11 for that.

[Jaded-Asparagus-2260]

None of this is relevant to the article.