[spir]

In my mind, GraalVM native compilation has superseded scala-native.

GraalVM native compilation works really well. Many projects will compile to native out of the box. Many more with a bit of reflection config that's autogenerated. The native executables are slim, statically linked so they "just work", and startup instantly as one would expect.

Scala is now a great choice for CLI tools.

[vips7L]

Native image works well without dependencies. I tried to get Weld and other JEE deps running in a smaller project and it was foot gun after footgun.

I'm hoping in the future the native-image friction can be lowered, but as of now it's not trivial like other languages.

[tutanchamun]

> statically linked so they "just work"

If I remember correctly you have to redistribute some .dll (VC something) file alongside your .exe on Windows since fresh Windows installations don't have the .dll. Did that change?

[spir]

I haven't tried GraalVM native-image on Windows :(

[vbezhenar]

> The native executables are slim

What's the size of hello_world.exe?

[LandR]

Dunno about Scala, but Clojure - another JVM language, has a GraalVM native executable for Hello WOrld about 8MB.

Not that slim.

[vips7L]

How does that compare to similar languages? (Go, Nim, D, etc).

[kbd]

For reference:

    $ \cat hellogo.go
    package main
    
    import "fmt"
    
    func main() {
      fmt.Println("hello")
    }
    $ go build hellogo.go
    $ \cat hellonim.nim
    echo "hello"
    $ nim c hellonim.nim
    ...
    $ ll
    total 2.2M
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 kbd staff 2.1M Apr 11 20:55 hellogo*
    -rw-r--r-- 1 kbd staff   66 Apr 11 20:42 hellogo.go
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 kbd staff  87K Apr 11 20:55 hellonim*
    -rw-r--r-- 1 kbd staff   13 Apr 11 20:29 hellonim.nim

Keep in mind these are the default compilation settings.

[zmmmmm]

Not too bad if it's truly statically linked though ...

[abhijat]

Are they statically linked by default now?

Last I looked (a couple of months ago) the executable produced linked dynamically but there was a flag to link statically.