This isn't a defense of greenfield -- my point is that if we haven't had a need for AOT for the past ten years, we don't have one now. I imagine 99% of big Java

This isn't a defense of greenfield -- my point is that if we haven't had a need for AOT for the past ten years, we don't have one now. I imagine 99% of big Java apps are in a similar position. Getting a legacy Java app to compile AOT isn't trivial either.