Comment by mike_hearn

Are you arguing it's less work to rewrite your entire app in Rust than to use GraalVM Native Image? Because you can get C/Rust style startup time and less memory usage with the latter, but it should take an agent only a few minutes to get things working (unless you are using a lot libraries that spin bytecode, but there is a mode for native image coming that can fully handle bytecode generation and can run any Java app).