I mean having the JVM not adopt the tooling model of Eiffel, OCaml and others where you get to choose bytecode/JIT for developing and AOT compilation for release builds.
Oh i hear you. That makes sense. I wanted all of them to do incremental compilation or interactive development for build then AOT for deploy. We're on same page there.
Ahh. Ok.
"Yet if it wasn't for the VM detour of the last 20 years"
You mean the C++ and VM detours? ;)