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Calling uname from Java using GraalVM

For years I’d been searching how to build native Linux apps using Java and somehow GraalVM has concluded it all. GraalVM’s native-image tooling is arguably the most elegant way of connecting Java to the native world. We’ll be exploring a clean way to interoperate with C libraries by writing a uname alternative in pure Java. No JNI mess, no sun.misc.Unsafe imports, just GraalVM. ️