[Volundr]

> Not sure why you include java in that, as you mostly get a standalone file. No such thing as a jre in modern java deployment.

Maybe I'm behind the times, but I can't figure out what you mean here. As far as I know 'java -jar' or servlets are still the most common ways of running a Java app. Are you talking graal and native image?

[matsemann]

For deploying your own stuff, most people do as before, yes. But even then, it's at least still only a single jar file, containing all dependencies. Not like a typical python project where they ask you to run some command to fetch dependencies and you have to pray it will work on your system.

But using jlink for java, one can package everything to a smaller runtime distributed together with the application. So then I feel it will be not much different than a Go executable.

> The generated JRE with your sample application does not have any other dependencies...

> You can distribute your application bundled with the custom runtime in custom-runtime. It includes your application.

From the guide here https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openjdk/11/htm...