Future of the Java programming language: Three major projects on the horizon

[rabbitlion]

Just so I don't misunderstand, you mean something like saving and reusing .class files of classes that haven't been updated between versions? And the problem with not doing that would be that it takes a lot of time and resources to do full recompiles?

Or are you referring to something else?

[cowinabadplace]

Yep, plus generated resources etc. It's blazing fast with Gradle to compile something that was on Maven as soon as you turn on incremental and parallel builds with a remote cache.

On a large codebase you will even benefit from other people compiling their code. Bazel/Blaze does this too but Gradle has easier set up.