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how is Graal more polyglot than wasm?! Does it support low level languages as well? Besides, it's only one implementation (controlled by Oracle) and will probab

by c-cube 7y ago

how is Graal more polyglot than wasm?! Does it support low level languages as well? Besides, it's only one implementation (controlled by Oracle) and will probably remain so forever — who would want to risk a lawsuit by reimplementing it, I wonder. wasm is already in all major browsers. It's succeeding where no JVM-based approach ever could.

Rusky 7y ago
GraalVM does support low level languages, and that's one of the most impressive things about it. For example, TruffleRuby runs both Ruby and its associated C extensions on it, bringing major performance improvements due to sharing an optimizer.
wbl 7y ago
Graal is licensed under the GPLv2. It's free software!
- mkj 7y ago
  Is there any patent grant to go with it?
- toast0 7y ago
  GPLv2 isn't free enough to be used in a commercial browser.
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    Which is why BSD has been such a commercial success and now rules the UNIX clones.
  - Ace17 7y ago
    Nitpick: I assume you meant "GPLv2 isn't free enough to be used in a proprietary browser".