[pjmlp]

Because of the crowd that doesn't want to pay for AOT compilers.

The majority of commercial JDKs always supported AOT to native code, only Sun did not, as they were religiously against AOT.

Oracle thankfully thinks otherwise, has kept sponsoring MaximeVM research, which became Graal and SubstrateVM, and now they are in the process of even re-writing the C++ parts into Java (Project Metropolis).