GraalVM is a high-performance, embeddable, polyglot Virtual Machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++.
Additionally, GraalVM allows efficient interoperability between programming languages and compiling Java applications ahead-of-time into native executables for faster startup time and lower memory overhead.
This download of binaries built by the GraalVM community includes:
- JVM
- JavaScript Engine & Node.js Runtime
- LLVM Engine
- Developer Tools
The Native Image, Ruby, R and Python plugins are optionally available using the GraalVM gu utility.
The complete release notes can be found on the website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/release-notes/.
This is a major release.
Previous releases can be found there