[wiseowise]

> I'd love to have native Kotlin at one point exclusively. No more failing builds because of a wrong jdk or anything.

I’m sorry to disappoint you, but Kotlin compiler is written in mix of Kotlin and Java which is being called from Gradle.

> Just everything about this ecosystem is fragile af. Not sure how we got to a point where shipping a simple Go bin is easier than shipping java.

./gradlew distZip and you’re done.

> Don't get me started on the resource usage and performance.

What about it?