[kkirsche]

Not by choice. The JVM is an engineering marvel, but the developer experience for most use cases doesn’t justify its use, e.g. dependency management, JVM tuning, boilerplate (if javas bugs you), etc. I’ve found other cross-compilable languages, like Go and Rust, fit my need when I need to distribute the app and various interpreted or compiled languages work when we operate the software during its maintenance and feature development phases.