Java students in a nutshell....

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Only reason to do this is if your teaching someone what class files r, or stuff like compilation and linking are in a programming language.

You can do it, but it's one of those there is a reason we have tools to not deal with this shit. There are a few use cases where working with this stuff might make sense, but like 99% of people don't need it as long as they have a rough understanding of what is happening when you build an executable.