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		saagarjha on Feb 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Electron v5.0 Timeline I have not once seen a Java application that shipped as a native binary. Sure, it can be done, but this is a very rare experience practice.

pjmlp on Feb 5, 2019 [–]

I have seen plenty on the enterprise, done by companies that actually pay for their tools, or do deployments into embedded targets.

Also Android J++ does AOT compilation, as sidenote.

Now that OpenJDK is starting to offer AOT compilation for free, maybe there will be more adoption among FOSS crowd.

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