GraalVM and Java 17, Truffle, Espresso and Native Image

An airhacks.fm conversation with Shaun Smith (@shaunmsmith) about: GraalVM is bound to openJDK releases with a few days delay, GraalVM support Java 17 native image, Java Records are DTOs, see airhacks.fm episode: "#131 I don't hate your DTOs", GraalVM 17 21.3.0 improved the performance of the native image, GraalVM native image is as fast as openJDK, optimization of Truffle languages, article: Multi-Tier Compilation in GraalVM, shopify is using Ruby, Ruby on GraalVM outperforms MRI, the use case Nashorn, Java 6 introduced the Scripting API, the Project Avatar at Oracle, G1 Native Image is configurable, trading memory for throughput, conditional code inclusion, quarkus and Micronaut are GraalVM native, reflection is slow and memory intensive, CDI lite will come with build-time optimization, truffle is built as an AST, Espresso is Java on Truffle, Espresso's startup time improved by 40%, running Java 17 on Java 11 with Espresso, Espresso is able to sandbox Java, Oracle Functions is using Java in container, "RAM equals CPU", Oracle Functions never oversubscribe, Micronaut - as concise as Python, but faster, the economic impact of performance, GraalVM 22 comes in January, wasm is maintained by the JavaScript team, JavaScript in the Oracle Database, Shaun Smith on twitter: @shaunmsmith