It does seem to me that Java's default tooling is clunky and hard to get running, which is indeed be a big barrier for new devs. The fact that after writing jav

It does seem to me that Java's default tooling is clunky and hard to get running, which is indeed be a big barrier for new devs. The fact that after writing java for ~10 years I'd still need to google how to setup a manifest file for a basic no-frills Java CLI program is silly. I've been tuned out of the last few Java releases, so maybe they fixed that recently though?