I use GraalVM and Native Image now and while the project --a small CLI tool-- is tiny (2kLOC with mainly AWS-SDK deps) the compile times are huge (~3 minutes), the OS-dependencies many (so much I use a build container to ease the burden of installing all) and the resulting binary is huge (~60MB).

But then it distributes as one binary and starts in milliseconds.

Rust would have been a better fit (cargo-and-done, smaller binary, quicker to compile); but I wanted to use Kotlin as we use in all other projects.