Totally agreed that java fails hard for use cases involving small, lightweight binaries that are low memory and fast to start. This is an area where golang shin

Totally agreed that java fails hard for use cases involving small, lightweight binaries that are low memory and fast to start. This is an area where golang shines on the other. People are starting to experiment with AOT compilation via graal to make headroom in this space, but the techonology being used feels young, nascent, and experimental or immature: https://medium.com/graalvm/instant-netty-startup-using-graalvm-native-image-generation-ed6f14ff7692 https://medium.com/graalvm/instant-netty-startup-using-graal... https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/native-clojure-and-graalvm/ https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/native-clojure-and-graalvm/ Interestingly most high-level runtimes also have slow startup, including python, ruby, and node.js, but java's feels worse because people seem to want to use heavyweight frameworks like spring or aspectj that absolutely murder startup time, that for instance generate bytecode on startup or use classpath scanning to discover dependencies.