I do front end web development for a place that uses java on the back end. The time between when I hit deploy to the time I can refresh and see new code in my browser is too long. Usually by the time it is ready I have gotten distracted and ended up on HN.

When I work on side projects that frustration is something I don't want to repeat. Java doesn't make the list of tools I consider. Maybe the other JVM languages have a better story in that regard. I just figured they reused Java's infrastructure and were equally handicapped.