[bsan3]

Agree, Java also had straight single file execution forever now. Java foo.java. I use it instead of scripts all the time. Solid language with a lot of flexibility, Oracle has done a good job in last few years. Newer Java frameworks are fairly easy and light to use. We have natively image Lambda functions in production. Work well.

[dionian]

how does this handle classpath

[javcasas]

Imagine having to know the programming language used to write a program to run it.

$ python foobar

Nope.

$ gcc foobar

Nope.

$ g++ foobar

Aw,come on.

$ go foobar

Damnit.

$ rust foobar

$ c# foobar

WTF did they use for this program??!!

$ node foobar

This is such a waste of time.

$ java foobar

Bullshit!

$ ocaml foobar

Come on, there arent't that many more programming languages!

$ tcl foobar

Finally!

[maxandersen]

thats why you use jreleaser and publish it so you just run it as `foobar`

Lets please not mix up good dev flows with end user flows...this is not unique problem for java.