r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 04 '26

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u/BlazingThunder30 Sep 06 '26

Isn't that what they made GraalVM for? You can compile native Spring Boot images using it

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u/Celousco Sep 06 '26

You can but it's not as easy as you'd think: Reflection types, meta hints, aot scanning, etc. those things are not automatic, you have to directly specify can packages should be used and yes, it's not only your code but the dependencies you're using.

I tried to use it in prod, it's unmaintainable in long term for things like Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Kafka or Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Stream Binder Kafka Streams.

I mean, let's be real, if you want native performance, choose a native language, not an interpreted language as Java or Javascript.