Java classloading is a natural fit for calling into a typesafe plugin fetched from a URL. Spark can even serialize lambdas and distribute their execution. It s

Java classloading is a natural fit for calling into a typesafe plugin fetched from a URL. Spark can even serialize lambdas and distribute their execution. It seems to be more of a hassle to do this kind of thing over IPC with native binaries, and if ARM starts displacing a lot of x86-64 in datacenters it gets more complicated.