For software like "strings"? Startup times and memory footprint/performance due to JIT compilation / the JVM, as well as the notorious complexity and bugginess

For software like "strings"? Startup times and memory footprint/performance due to JIT compilation / the JVM, as well as the notorious complexity and bugginess of the runtime. Just consider the frequent updates and incompatibilities you'd get with it - for example, we had plenty of Java-based remote management GUIs which wouldn't run on newer Java runtime versions. Maybe with the (limiting) static compilation options available for Java it'd make more sense.