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Java is Very Fast, If You Don’t Create Many Objects
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And this is how people build the largest (in terms of the actual size of the binary on the disk) command line utilities in history.
I don’t know why you would think that. GraalVM can compile tiny tiny packages, and you can easily remove features from the JVM if you don’t need them. It’s a terrible myth that JVM means massive binaries.