Will Java go native?

[Walter Bright]

On 9/18/2013 2:33 PM, Chris wrote:
> Seeing that more and more developers and companies look for or actively develop
> native languages, I wonder will Java go native one day? (Cf.
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/A97336_01/buslog.102/a83727/jtools5.htm)

I wrote a native Java compiler in the 90's that was released by Symantec. There 
wasn't much interest in it.