GraalVM is really awesome, but it doesn't fit what we're trying to do here. One of the key bits of architecture is that we share the VM between all of the programs; this saves on a lot of overhead. Running multiple native images would still give a copy of each runtime for each thing.

(Also, while native images may have low memory footprint themselves, that doesn't mean that the programs that use them have a low enough memory footprint; my understanding (which may be wrong!) is that the default heap size it sets is 80% of the memory of the machine you're compiling it on. You can of course tune that, but it's gonna be tough to squeeze in a memory-hungry application.)