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>But they're uber niche and therefore immensely expensive.
They are cheaper than Macbooks.

>Wouldn't I be better off with a tablet and bluetooth keyboard and mouse?
No, because then you have to carry a lot of peripherals for a weak machine that can't run compilers.

>write interpreter in Java
>realize I can take the input source for the interpreted language, bundle it with the source of the interpreter and compile that to executable with GraalVM
>now the user has an executable of whatever their input code was
Does this count as a compiler written in Java? From the user's perspective, they write code in my language, click compile and get an executable. I stole the architecture from SNOBOL4, and the program that did this was referred to as a compiler?