Graal VS Quarkus

How does it compare to graal wasm? https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/wasm/README.md/

Java was created by James Gosling and released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. It was designed with the principle of "Write Once, Run Anywhere" (WORA), enabling cross-platform compatibility through the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Over the years, Java became a leading language for enterprise applications, Android development, and large-scale backend systems. Oracle now maintains Java, with modern innovations such as Project Loom and GraalVM enhancing its performance.

Sorry, I know you weren't asking me, but for this same use case, yes, I've used a GHA build matrix with each OS/arch pair.

Cosmo/APE support would fix this, and GraalVM already ships with a Musl libc implementation, so it isn't very far off.

https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/8350

It wasn’t long before I ran into several other blog posts about developers successfully using GraalVM and frameworks such as Quarkus to address this very problem. And so I’ve decided to try it out for myself.

GraalVM adds an advanced just-in-time (JIT) optimizing compiler, which is written in Java, to the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine.

You can trim down the runtime[1] but the tooling around doing this is non-existent / unreliable. Alternatively, you can generate native binaries with GraalVM[2] which comes with its own baggage (license, slow compile time, etc).

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/embedded/develop-apps-platf...

[2]: https://www.graalvm.org/

Too bad it looks stuck since about a month ago (https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/8350#issuecomment-210...), needs some attention from @jart.

Really now? Now that's interesting. I thought GraalVM might be a good option in that space https://www.graalvm.org/ last I checked, but something literally called Hermetic Java has my interest piqued.

Quarkus Official Documentation

If you are into Java and are looking for a great project to start, make sure to check out Quarkus. They also have a great contributor guide which you can check out and get started directly!

It wasn’t long before I ran into several other blog posts about developers successfully using GraalVM and frameworks such as Quarkus to address this very problem. And so I’ve decided to try it out for myself.

Quarkus is a newer entrant designed with cloud-native and serverless applications in mind. It boasts lightning-fast startup times and low memory usage.

I did write a lot of Java but never called myself a Java developer, and in my current company there are a lot of hardcore Java devs who used to swear by the Spring stack (some even liked JSF!), and a lot of them are moving things to Quarkus (https://quarkus.io/). No idea why, just an observation.

Recently, I’ve been working with Quarkus[1], the quarkus-qute[2] (a type-safe templating engine), and htmx. I found the experience quite positive. Quarkus offers lightning-fast compilation with a hot-reloading Maven wrapper (mvnw), making development seamless. Picking up qute was straightforward, and combining it with htmx, especially with qute’s #fragment support for htmx, felt like a natural fit.

[1] https://quarkus.io/

In recent days or weeks, as someone relatively new to AWS services, I've been struggling to run a Quarkus application I've been working on, on AWS Lambda.

A github discussion

Two of the most famous Java server frameworks, namely Spring and Quarkus, provide CLIs for improving DX.