Show HN: Nuts – pip/NPM for Java with first-class workspaces, JDK provisioning
github.comMy frustration with distributing java apps didnt show up recently. I remember having implemented my first network jar downloaded back in the 2000's because i needed applet like feature support with desktop full control. Years after, the problem is the very same. Webstart didnt really took off and the only mean i had in my projects was the ugly fatjars, including the (for me) uglier spring-boot repackaging that changes the application classloading behaviour and hence giving me by time some headackes i was not prepared for.
So basically nuts started as a response to this frustration 9 years ago, but from now i think its mature enough (used in production) to be shared, and forecebly i am more keen to need suggestions and help from fellow contributors. Feels more like uv than pip, which is interesting for an ecosystem like Java. The constant "nuts does A. No B. No C. No D" the readme is exhausting to read ai slop. Please put your sales pitch up front, then let the rest be plain documentation, don't intermingle the two.