An airhacks.fm conversation with Wolfgang Weigend (@wolflook) about:

GraalVM Sales Consultant and GraalVM Java SE System Engineer,

Sun Tech Days in Frankfurt,

"When C becomes too slow, the JVM has to be written in Java... project Maxwell",

Maxine and GraalVM,

running NodeJS on GraalVM,

creating native CLI utilities,

combining multiple languages on a single JVM,

polyglot programming is hard to manage,

GraalVM ships with compatible ES 6+ JavaScript,

GraalVM re-imagines the Fluid Logic pattern,

tiobe programming language index,

combining HotSpot and JRocket VMs,

jbake static page generator,

combining Handlebars, Mustache with Java and Nashorn: spg.

GraalVM allows debugging of all languages in a single process,

Goldman Sachs making Slang to run on GraalVM with Truffle,

GraalVM and web assembly,

JavaFX is not a competitor of Web Components and Web Standards,

JavaFX competes with React Native or Ionic,

the JFX days,

Gluon Mobile uses SubstrateVM to deploy applications to mobile devices,

JDK 8 is commercially supported until 2030,

JavaFX is bundled with JDK 8,

with support, you don't have to wait for bug fixes,

branches are expensive,

JavaScript runtimes are not problematic -- but the build process can become a problem