A lot of people here are suggesting Go for its single binary with no dependencies, but if you're starting a small green field project in Java you should have no

A lot of people here are suggesting Go for its single binary with no dependencies, but if you're starting a small green field project in Java you should have no issue making sure it's jlinkable and even compiling it to a single statically linked binary with Graal. This way you can re-use your Java expertise and still get a statically linked single binary with quick startup.