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I refuse to praise Oracle for anything. But I could make an exception if they put Isolates in the CE version of Graal and not only the Enterprise one. :) Also,
by PedroBatista 4y ago
I refuse to praise Oracle for anything. But I could make an exception if they put Isolates in the CE version of Graal and not only the Enterprise one. :)
Also, obviously Oracle didn't do this out of the kindness of their hearts, if they didn't contribute Graal into the OpenJDK the would risk to Graal never become anything other than a niche VM because most people, specially big clients don't want to change VMs and the CE version will be their new gateway drug to their Enterprise version of Graal.
- pron 4y agoLinux, Chromium and V8, Java, .NET, and Go, and most other large open source projects these days are developed by for-profit corporations, none of them do it out of kindness. Frankly, if corporations were to bestow gifts worth hundreds of millions of dollars on society, I'd rather those gifts not be free software that is largely enjoyed by other for-profit corporations.
- PedroBatista 4y agoI agree, I was just pointing that this is not a "donation" because Larry is Santa Claus but just a business move. Which I have no problem with.
- grashalm 4y agoWhich isolates do you mean? Support for Native image isolates is included in CE. There are some features like polyglot isolates that are currently EE, but they are just a use of native image isolates.