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Re:Scala Native v0.1 by chuwy on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:14AM (#13868114)
For me most important benefit is running without pre-installed VM. Not particularly important for backend, but huge win for user-space tools.
Re:Scala Native v0.1 by pjmlp on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:30PM (#13870699)
You could always bundle the jre, and with Java 9 one can even make use of the newly introduced linker to create a customized image just with the relevant classes.
Re:Scala Native v0.1 by djsumdog on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:25AM (#13868236)
True, and if you wouldn't have to worry about Oracle licensing either (although you can avoid that currently with OpenJDK as well)