If you wish statically linked binaries and cross-compilation, you can use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/22.0/reference-manual/native-image/StaticImages/ https

If you wish statically linked binaries and cross-compilation, you can use GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/22.0/reference-manual/native-image/StaticImages/ https://www.graalvm.org/22.0/reference-manual/native-image/S.... Fully accept that Go has the superior cross-compilation story, though you can do this via Github actions if you really want this for Java. https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-action-for-graalvm#building-a-helloworld-with-graalvm-native-image-on-different-platforms https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-action-for-gra... As for GC - Java is superior in nearly all respects. But you are right that common programming libs+paradigms in Java produce too much garbage. This has changed with lean and memory-sensitive frameworks in Java nowadays - like Quarkus https://quarkus.io/ https://quarkus.io/