Persistent Collection VS sbt-native-packager

So does Java! Also, kotlinx.collections is still not stable and I don't think they are intending to make it so any time soon.

> If you are using containers, always, always, always use immutable containers from Google Guava unless you have an exceptionally good reason.

I actually prefer pcollections: https://github.com/hrldcpr/pcollections

AtomicReference + immutable data types is a really nice way to program in Java, and is basically the way most Clojure programs are written.

You might consider persistent collections instead of immutable collections, I believe it is more optimized https://github.com/hrldcpr/pcollections

once you outgrow scala-cli, you should know sbt has a lot of plugins ( some might say it's ecosystem is the only thing keeping it relevant....) like sbt-native-packager which again does the heavy lifting for you

So far, we have been working mainly with projects that use https://github.com/sbt/sbt-native-packager, still, projects building fat jars should also work smoothly.

You should use sbt-jib. (You shouldn't use sbt-native-packager either, it doesn't work well in this regard: [1], [2].)

As others have stated, this is mainly due to the nature of the JVM. You can try using GraalVM however, which basically complies JVM bytecode to native-code avoiding startup time issues, sbt-native-packager lets you do this quite easily.

IMO don't take any of this advice and use https://github.com/sbt/sbt-native-packager