[maxandersen]

jar + vm into single binary feels like a solvable problem.

I haven't really had the burning need for app+jvm since I used graalvm and made jbang and its now trivial to run app + shared jvm for me - but I can see the utility for it.

Noted down the various pointers and existing attempt to explore in 2026 !

About build and publishing - this I feel is also solvable.

Especially if we stop trying to solve it for all possible mutations of gradle/maven builds and just make it work for jars...this is where jbang/jreleaser really simplifies more than I think many realize.

So in 2026 I'll definitely try get more recipes published on this and also see if we can make something like `jbang publish` "Just Work"

[vips7L]

Yes we talked about this on Reddit. I don’t think it’s impossible it’s just work that needs to be done!

I really think that this aligns with the “paving the on ramp” type of stuff. Making the build tooling first class and simple will help adoption.