Can you elaborate on the difficulties of setting up Java projects? I have never worked in Java at an enterprise level, but have tinkered a bit. IntelliJ makes setting up a maven-based project pretty much one-click. But I’m guessing that the complexity that you’re referring to wouldn’t be apparent to someone like me who is only using it for small hobby projects.
You have to have identified that you need IntelliJ and know what a maven-based project is (indeed, know what a 'project' is, the concept is a bit technical). And there is the split between the JDK & JVM. This is all to be learned before actually approaching the challenge of adding a dependency to the project.
Compare that to a Python beginner where they install Python & use the text editor that exists on their machine & it can be a general purpose text editor rather than something specifically developed to write Java code. There might be one `pip install` along the way, but no requirement to understand a folder layout, project concept or even create a file for dependency management. There is even a reasonable chance that Python is pre-installed on their machine.
