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0 pointschuwy9y ago0 comments

For me most important benefit is running without pre-installed VM. Not particularly important for backend, but huge win for user-space tools.

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pjmlp9y ago

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.

djsumdog9y ago

True, and if you wouldn't have to worry about Oracle licensing either (although you can avoid that currently with OpenJDK as well)

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0 pointschuwy9y ago0 comments

For me most important benefit is running without pre-installed VM. Not particularly important for backend, but huge win for user-space tools.

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pjmlp9y ago

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.

djsumdog9y ago

True, and if you wouldn't have to worry about Oracle licensing either (although you can avoid that currently with OpenJDK as well)

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