alt Hacker NewsChrome has 1496 [0] known options as of today, maybe after a few more pushes they'll catch up to the 1843 of JVM.
An interface like above to sort things would probably be quite helpful as well.
[0] https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
Why not compiling it to Java source code (not bytecode)? Users would use their own Java compiler then.
Same as, say, ANTLR generates code to parse various texts to AST.