It'll help build cross-platform desktop applications. In theory, it'll streamline using GitHub Actions to produce platform-specific binaries, such as my FOSS M

It'll help build cross-platform desktop applications. In theory, it'll streamline using GitHub Actions to produce platform-specific binaries, such as my FOSS Markdown editor KeenWrite[0], without having to have a copy of every target operating system. To my knowledge, cross-compiling "native" Linux and Windows binaries using Java requires duct tape, chewing gum, and warp-packer.[1][2] If there's another way to cross-compile a Java application into a standalone binary for multiple target platforms, do tell! GraalVM isn't a panacea. For example, GraalVM cannot compile Renjin[3], a pure Java R interpreter, which means switching from Renjin to FastR. Not trivial. Other sinkholes likely lurk that'll only reveal themselves when walking through the weeds. [0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite [1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/06/29/write-once-build-anywhere/ https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/06/29/write-once-build-an... [2]: https://github.com/dgiagio/warp https://github.com/dgiagio/warp [3]: https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/issues/564 https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/issues/564