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is there a benefit to running kotlin (and probably KTOR) as a webserver without the JVM?

How exactly do you mean? You mean using Kotlin/Native?

For a webserver I don't think you would really benefit from that

ok, so you mainly want native for interop benefits in that case

Or for quick startup time, like for a CLI

But the JVM is very optimized for server use cases

I've not actually tried it or even really looked into it but I have wondered if there's a benefit for scale-to-zero scenarios (i.e. knative-serving/eventing) for ktor+kotlin/native. We're just sticking with JVM until it becomes an issue.

I guess the serverless installation. For example, our customers do not allow to run any JVM on site. That would be alternative