polyglot

A collection of 3 posts

GraalVM performance polyglot

My first impressions about Graal VM

Last week was the release of Oracle’s GraalVM. As stated on the website: GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python 3, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++. GraalVM removes the isolation between programming languages and enables interoperability in a shared runtime. It can run either standalone or in the context of OpenJDK, Node.js, Oracle Database, or MySQL. There are several fac
kotlin polyglot webapp

Polyglot everywhere - part 2

Last week, we set up a new project using the YAML flavor of Polyglot Maven. Now is time for some server-side code! As a long time Vaadin advocate, let’s create a very simple Vaadin application. This will have the added advantage to let us hack something on the client-side as well for the last part of this series. As we are fully polyglot, we will avoid the old Java language and use something very cool instead. As I’ve have been to some conferences with its number 1 advocate, I settl
build maven polyglot

Polyglot everywhere - part 1

This is the era of polyglot! Proponents of this practice spread the word that you’ve to choose the language best adapted to the problem at hand. And with a single team dedicated to a microservice, this might make sense. My pragmatic side tells me it means that developers get to choose the language they are developing with and don’t care how it will be maintained when they go away…​ On the other hand, my shiny-loving side just want to try - albeit in a more controlled env