Groovy as a JVM-less Bash-Script/Perl/Python alternative ?

[MG]

In my opinion the reason why Bash-Script/Perl/Python are the predominant 
Linux script languages is, because all or most of them come preinstalled 
on every Linux distribution, and because they run standalone with 
minimal startup time and memory fotprint.
One of the great things about Grooy is, that it is "one language for 
everything", and as a dynamic language with a concise and C-based (i.e. 
widely used/understood) syntax, good File support, String interpolation 
and powerful closures, it is well suited to be used as a modern Script 
language.

However Groovy is dependent on an existing Java installation (of the 
correct version).

Since JVM based applications are, in my experience, often massively 
disliked by people outside of the JVM community (e.g. sys admins), I 
have been wondering whether Groovy could/should supply a precompiled, 
memory footprint optimized, standalone version that runs without a JVM, 
so that it could be used for Linux (Windows) scripting the same as 
Bash-Script/Perl/Python are, and if GraalVM could be the principal way 
to do it (https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/native-image/) 
<https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/native-image/> ?

Thoughts ?
mg