Just to corroborate - with gcc's gcj Java folk could get compilation to an ELF binary for free as well. I was profiling such in 2004. This was unpopular/unmai

Just to corroborate - with gcc's gcj Java folk could get compilation to an ELF binary for free as well. I was profiling such in 2004. This was unpopular/unmaintained enough that eventually gcc discontinued it. Sadly, people often confuse "prevailing mindset of the noisiest authorities of some programming language" with "the programming language itself" { not that this is the only confusion or maybe even the worst... :-) }