GraalVM
GraalVM has caused a revolution in Java development since it launched three years ago. One of the most discussed features of GraalVM is Native Image, which is based on an ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation. It unlocks the runtime performance profile of native applications while keeping the familiar developer productivity and tooling of the Java ecosystem.
Advantages of GraalVM
The GraalVM initiative 2 by Oracle Labs helps optimise the performance of Java in developing robust applications. Here are the major advantages that GraalVM adds to Java:
1. Cloud-Native support
GraalVM enables Java to perform more efficiently to make it suitable for cloud-native and serverless deployment environments. The operational and functional efficiency offered by GraalVM makes the system capable of optimising applications for containers and microservices, hence a perfect-fit for cloud-native development.
2. Polyglot experience
The shared runtime environment delivered by GraalVM provides the coders with ability to create polyglot applications in multiple languages that GraalVM supports, including Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, Clojure, R, Python, JavaScript, Ruby. The robust GraalVM infrastructure allows developers to run code highly performant machine code efficiently in multiple languages and libraries while in a single application, just like it was written in Java.
3. Easy compilation
The core of GraalVM is its compilers written in the Java language. The compiler can be used in two modes - Just in Time (JIT) and Ahead of Time (AOT) - depending on the nature of the application.
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