> but Java does not automatically give memory back to the system It depends on which GC is being used. Newer GC's like Shenandoah and ZGC (as well as G1GC I b

> but Java does not automatically give memory back to the system It depends on which GC is being used. Newer GC's like Shenandoah and ZGC (as well as G1GC I believe) do. It also seems they didn't look at GraalVM to generate native binaries for Java (e.g. https://quarkus.io https://quarkus.io)