> What does that mean, and what is it about native programs (i.e. programs AOT-compiled to machine code) that makes them feel solid? Im a little late here and

> What does that mean, and what is it about native programs (i.e. programs AOT-compiled to machine code) that makes them feel solid? Im a little late here and as a Java user most of the time people tell me: 1. They just want to ship a binary. Most are not aware of Jpackage, but correct me if I’m wrong that just makes installers right? I’m hopeful that the “hermetic” work from Leyden will help here. 2. They frequently complain about Java’s memory usage, but don’t really understand how setting the heap size works and what the defaults are. I’m also hopeful that ZGC’s automatic heap sizing will solve this. With those two features I think the view of Java will change, as long as there is good build tooling for them. It would be nice to make that the default, but that would break many builds.