[ivan_gammel]

Technically speaking, what’s the difference between native binary requiring some set of OS APIs or portable binary requiring a VM layer on top of OS? User experience can be the same, you can run those things from command line, pipe inputs and outputs etc.

[chii]

the difference might be expectations that the OS api exists and does not require an installation pre-execution of the binary.

On the other hand, i think the jvm, like python, ought to be part of a standard install of an OS tbh. Then there would really be no difference.

[piva00]

You can package a JVM into a binary executable, no need for a system JVM that way.