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Re:From Java to Go, and Back Again (2016) by rhencke on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:12PM (#17382859)
Keep your eye on Graal - specifically its native-image component.

Not only do you get instant startup, you also get a statically linked binary that doesn't need a JRE present to run. Throw it a JAR - get a native binary for your system.

https://github.com/oracle/graal

Re:From Java to Go, and Back Again (2016) by guitarbill on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:21PM (#17382894)
Someone used GraalVM to eliminate cold-start penalty for Lambdas, genius [0] ! I'm very excited about Graal, if only because it'd make deployments easier, but the debuggability remains to be seem.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284022