is it possible to first hand precompile fcode (the fantom bytecode)(that is, the .pod) to JVM/.NET bytecode(that is, .exe,.jar etc

and then later run that .exe and .jar directly on JVM/.NET(not the .pod)

I think you need to use JStub in %FAN_HOME%/bin to do this. Here is usage example:

java -classpath lib/java/sys.jar fanx.tools.Jstub -d outDir podName

Also JarDist will turn your projects into a jar file but it's considerably lower than jstub (because it zips files as well).

JarDist is probably the closest thing we have.

Remember that Fantom includes a lot of extra features that cannot be access from just simple bytecode:

• Fantom reflection requires fcode (since the type system includes nullable types, etc)
• Pod reflection
• indexed props
• units, timezones, mime types, etc require their associated "database" files