But why is that a problem. So you get access to a big community and lots of libraries. Are you working in an environment where you can't run a JVM at all for s

But why is that a problem. So you get access to a big community and lots of libraries. Are you working in an environment where you can't run a JVM at all for some technical reason? Maybe very constrained? But then you wouldn't be able to take many libraries regardless of platform. And in fact Kotlin also has Kotlin/Native which generates small(ish) native binaries. There is also SubstrateVM which can create standalone, statically linked, natively pre-compiled binaries from Java/Kotlin programs. It even has an ARM backend.