[mpweiher]

> that's not what it's built for

There was nothing in the original design that said "only long running server processes". In fact, Java was originally aimed at set-top boxes, then web applets, then cross platform GUI apps. It was only after it failed in all of these that the server was discovered, despite the fact that "write once, run anywhere" is almost completely pointless when you control the hardware it runs on.

The long startup times are a limitation of the implementation technology, not a principled design choice. See also: Jitterdämmerung ( http://blog.metaobject.com/2015/10/jitterdammerung.html )