Will Java go native?

[PauloPinto]

On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 23:53:35 UTC, Iain Buclaw 
wrote:
> On 18 September 2013 22:33, Chris <wendlec at tcd.ie> 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)
>>
>> Is this Java's only chance to keep up with Go and Rust (and 
>> D)? Performance
>> is an issue, no matter how fast your processor is, Java always 
>> lags behind*.
>> And the JVM installation horror is bad enough for developers, 
>> but for users?
>> Now Java apps are often shipped with a version of the JRE 
>> included, which
>> smells of defeat. If Oracle want to save Java (after so many 
>> "unfortunate"
>> decisions), will they finally go native? I can see a market 
>> for that. There
>> are still a lot of Java developers out there, there are loads 
>> of Java apps,
>> Java has GUI libraries etc.
>>
>> *Java's sluggish performance was what made me look for 
>> alternatives in the
>> first place, and I found D.
>
> Java itelf is a very basic language to allow this to be 
> possible.  But
> the library implementation denies this, and I don't see native 
> support
> beyond JNI.

Why, given the fact that I can buy native compilers?

--
Paulo