ink-splatters

Having single binary output is completely different problem and is solved for both Python and typescript (bun supports the later).

You can tune java runtime in many ways, achieving impressive throughput/latency for your type of workload.

Next to none of them will get you nearly as good cold start times as of native app, if using free java.

There was GraalVM and its ecosystem which included Java Native Image - first thing I’d evaluate if thought about non-server side, performant Java application.

But it all had been sadly swept away by Oracle from free tier.