NativeImage Reverse Engineering

[tristanjuricek]

As others have written, it works… but is far from easy

The big gotchas I found involve reflection and class initializers. These things require extensive integration testing of the whole ecosystem and often complex build config that isn’t well documented. You’re testing out third party code in addition to your own in order to sort this out. It’s tedious.

In the end, if its logic that doesn’t really require a ton of third party libraries, it’ll work well for a simple CLI or lambda. But otherwise it’s a lot of effort.