[capableweb]

JVM can be kinda neat if you're doing server deployments and might use different languages like Kotlin, Java, Clojure and jRuby, as the deployments are mostly the same and same inspection tools can be used for the runtime.

However, doing CLIs or binaries for whatever reason, then it wouldn't be so neat. Ruby wouldn't either, but GraalVM might be able to provide something good for it in the future as well.

[pjmlp]

You could always compile Java to straight native code since the early 2000's, just not for free.