This would be great for BUILD tools like bazel which is written in Java.
Bazel is still a bit away from having Java 9 support [1] and it still requires some system dependencies (for the other languages and cross system support).
I wish more tools would go the "static binary" path that make it easy to build and use wrappers without having to figure out system configuration every single time.
For Windows, it's mainly perception - if engineer sees that a tool is like 200mb in the depot, he/she be like - that's too much :) "Remember why we pulled boost, and no longer use it - as it's huuuge!" :)