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Comment by speed_spread

3 hours ago

I like modern Java and agree it's a much better language than Go and an excellent platform in general. But Java will not beat Go where small and fast native executables are required. The native story for Java will remain a sad one, builds being hyper slow (aot) or resulting in huge binaries (jlink).

Small and fast native executables sounds more like a niche than a real market. Don't get me wrong: really nice to have, but a raison d'etre?

You mean like those 300MB that need to be compressed with upx for distribution, like some Go projects?