We're about 1 year into development of a Quarkus application and I'm still a big fan. The fast startup and hot-reloading are amazing for rapidly iterating. Most

We're about 1 year into development of a Quarkus application and I'm still a big fan. The fast startup and hot-reloading are amazing for rapidly iterating. Most importantly, it's really easy to reach a Quarkus developer if you have any questions. They also have a YouTube series "Quarkus Insights" and they do live stream events where you can ask questions. It's true the documentation initially feels a bit lacking for the Getting Started scenario. But now I really appreciate the Guide format (essentially How-To's). Whenever I need to accomplish something, there's a guide for it. With that said yes I still wish there was less magic in the Java ecosystem. Some years ago I toyed with Clojure a bit and I had some issue related to sessions with the popular Ring HTTP library. I viewed the source code on Github and was amazed that it was all vanilla Clojure. And even for a novice Clojure dev it was written in such a basic style I immediately understood how the whole library worked and found the solution to my problem.