[filereaper]

>Molding a 25 year old runtime ecosystem to adapt to AOT compilation feels like putting lipstick on a pig.

Other JVMs like J9 have had AOT support for decades now, its not "lipstick on a pig". There's plenty of material from previous JVMLS meetups about AOT.

[kaba0]

Also, AOT support in itself is not hard. Making it performant is more difficult and Graal is truly remarkable/state of the art in many regards.