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> If Chrome and Safari shipped GraalVM accessible via <script> tags, how many people would care about WASM? That’s a good question, and partly why I was pointi
by bluejekyll 4y ago
> If Chrome and Safari shipped GraalVM accessible via <script> tags, how many people would care about WASM?
That’s a good question, and partly why I was pointing out that it’s not just benevolence for Oracle to OSS this. I don’t know if the browsers vendors could embed Graal, maybe they can, (license restrictions being some of the issues I’m sure) and then that could supplant the individual JS and WASM runtimes they support. But this wasn’t even an option until today.
> Remember that you can run WASM and LLVM bitcode on top of GraalVM too, it's not just about textual languages.
Which is exactly why I mentioned that in my original comment. Yes, Graal could be that runtime, will it? Seems like a gamble for anyone who’s not already in the JVM ecosystem to some degree.
- mike_hearn 4y agoDespite the wording of the announcement, Graal and Truffle have been open source under permissive licenses for a long time now. The "donation" is from one open source project run by Oracle to another. Confusing, indeed, but Oracle is a big company. So it's been possible license-wise for a long time.
- bluejekyll 4y agoIn the announcement it sounds like they are planning to change the license in some manner, “Will the GraalVM license change? The plan is to align all the GraalVM technologies with Java both from a release perspective and from a licensing perspective. Additional details will follow in the coming months as we move forward through this process.”
- origin_path 4y agoThey're both open source licenses just slightly different ones (gpl2+CPE and upl I guess). Sun liked to use odd licenses.