I’ve been playing with Quarkus a lot at work lately. It’s really impressive how familiar it is with the Java EE annotations, yet has just about enough enhancements to make the developer experience so much better!

An example would be the @QuarkusTest annotation for testing. It scaffolds everything for you to get a running Quarkus app to run your integration tests. I don’t even know how to get the same setup running on EAP or Wildfly.

The other area that just makes me feel at home is Panache. It adds a lot of extra methods to my entities to make querying, creation, and updating much easier. It looks like Ruby-on-Rails' ActiveRecord.

I’m really excited to see what gets added next! It’s been a real joy to use Quarkus for my new toy applications and I hope this continues! Onwards!