Actually it does if you use the GraalVM Native Image AOT compiler. It's a sort of pseudo-JVM that gets linked into your app and provides the following features:

Actually it does if you use the GraalVM Native Image AOT compiler. It's a sort of pseudo-JVM that gets linked into your app and provides the following features: 1. Instant startup due to AOT compilation and a cached heap. Can start faster than C! 2. No warmup. 3. Can create native code shared libraries. 4. Offers isolates, which are segregated heaps that do GC separately but run in-process and which can communicate with each other. The tradeoffs are that unless you buy the more advanced edition, peak performance is lower due to lack of JIT profiling, you may need to write configs and do other fiddling to ensure the AOT compilation doesn't miss any code that's accessed via reflection, it takes a long time to compile, and you can't dynamically load bytecode (which some libraries do behind the scenes transparently).