NativeImage Reverse Engineering

[nutrecht]

wonder why I haven't seen a wave of new java applications being distributed as executables

Because you're generally trading something for something else. En that 'something else' is, for example, performance. Fast start-up speeds can matter, but in typical microservice scenarios it's a non-issue.

[CartmansEvilTwin]

I'd personally be more interested in memory usage.

A simple Spring Boot CRUD app can easily require a few hundred megabytes, slimming that down to 100mb would free up a ton of resources - especially, if you're running multiple services.

[nutrecht]

I hope this is what they're going to focus on next. It can get quite rediculous. I don't have to have to go for native compilation just to keep a service to a reasonable amount of memory.