The original comment was "JVM startup is sub-second. Still not great for e.g. small command line utilities, but completely fine otherwise."
For tooling it matters. Some scripts will have backticks and $() and each use of these could be up to a second and be acceptable? Not really. And if you want to run a command like `go fmt` every time you save a file in $EDITOR then you want it to be fast. Maybe when we use the Language Server Protocol everywhere, it will be a different world. But a lot of editors shell out for these features still - and you would never dream of shelling out to e.g. `mvn dependency:tree` because it's too slow.
