[sureglymop]

When I tried it it was great but also not easy to use. Things become hard quickly, e.g. If your jvm code uses something like reflection.

[perrygeo]

Clojure code ends up using a lot of reflection if you're doing generic Java interop. Most code destined for the GraalVM will add `(set! warn-on-reflection true)` and get repl warnings and you can set type hints accordingly.

[hocuspocus]

Native images are just one feature though. Many people would benefit from the Graal JIT even if they don't care about anything else.

[Capricorn2481]

My understanding is GraalVM's JIT keeps some optimizations for the enterprise edition, and is otherwise comparable to Hotspot, with some niche exceptions. I'm not sure "many" would benefit without paying.

[hocuspocus]

It's been entirely free since mid-2023. Even if you care rather about native images, you probably want to use the proprietary distribution anyway.

[90s_dev]

I vaguely remember using it about 10 years ago for work, can't remember what for, or anything about that situation, but the one takeaway that I do remember is that it was neat and innovative, but ultimately not good enough to overthrow whatever we were using instead.

[piranha]

First release happened in 2019

[90s_dev]

My memory is not great, as implied by that very comment.

[pjmlp]

GraalVM has evolved from another Sun Research Labs project, MaximeVM, but that was never released as a product.