Compiling Java into Native Binaries with Graal and Mill

1. firebase-admin-java

   1 1 557 8.5 Java

   Firebase Admin Java SDK

   

   "Almost every Java program, library, and framework uses some degree of reflection and dynamic classloading, and so you do have to spend the effort to configure Graal appropriately." -- this is by far the biggest problem with native binary compilation.

   Imagine spending 15+ minutes building an exe, and it stopping at minute 15 because some things needed to be added in the config. Or, after waiting 30 minutes to have the exe ready, it refused to run because of the same problem.

   The issue is we don't know what we don't know. You don't "forget to include something" because you don't know what to include (and even after seeing the error, you still don't lol).

   I just wished all 3rd party libraries put their "include this config to include my lib in your exe", just like OSGi manifest (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/wasdtfe?topic=overview-osgi-bund...).

   For example, an issue still open for almost 2 years: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-admin-java/issues/800

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3. JNA

   2 28 8,648 7.4 Java

   Java Native Access

   

   https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/pull/1608

4. Graal

   3 170 20,689 10.0 Java

   GraalVM compiles Java applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀

   

   Sorry, I know you weren't asking me, but for this same use case, yes, I've used a GHA build matrix with each OS/arch pair.

   Cosmo/APE support would fix this, and GraalVM already ships with a Musl libc implementation, so it isn't very far off.

   https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/8350

5. Avalonia

   4 279 27,046 9.8 C#

   Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology

   

   I don't know why anyone even uses the GUI frameworks from Microsoft these days. WinForms is only good if you need to throw something together quick. Everything else should be Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/). Cross platform and does support AOT.

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