GraalVM's alignment With OpenJDK Signifies A New Era For Java-"in the battle for the Cloud"

 Oracle will be contributing GraalVM Community Edition Java Code to OpenJDK. There's a lot behind this simple statement. But before that, let's first look at what GraalVM actually does.

The recent flurry of interest in GraalVM started with a tweet that sparked excitement inside the Java community.

Oracle is contributing GraalVM Community Edition Java code to OpenJDK to more closely align the development of the GraalVM technologies with that of Java

Two technologies at play here; the well established OpenJDK and the newcomer, GraalVM.

At a very high level, GraalVM is a runtime split into two aspects; compile bytecode into native self-contained executables aka native images and run programs on the JVM in languages other than Java.

Per the first aspect, Native image

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