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Ok so this is just a re-packaging of GraalVM by RedHat. Which is great for those who want nothing to do with Oracle. But I see this as the only plus - there really are no other differentiators. Keep in mind the relevant license here: GPLv2+CPE (classpath exception) which still applies whether you use Mandrel from RedHat or GraalVM from Oracle.

I've used GraalVM and while its a bit fiddly to setup it is great for containerised apps owing to lower memory usage and faster startup - this outweighs (for my use case) the slightly lower throughput vs using regular JVM.




> Ok so this is just a re-packaging of GraalVM by RedHat

I think the implications of this might be much deeper than just a re-spin of Graal. If Red Hat ports all their applications into a native mode, and starts offering native spinoff of EAP, or of their other software, that might be insanely interesting offer... Hell, keycloak is written in Java...

It now depends on how strongly will RH push internally for GraalVM adoption.




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