GraalVM is a high-performance, embeddable, polyglot virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++.

Additionally, GraalVM allows efficient interoperability between programming languages and compiling Java applications ahead-of-time into native executables for faster startup time and lower memory overhead.

This download includes:

• JVM
• utility for creating native images
• JavaScript engine & node.js runtime
• LLVM engine

Ruby, R and Python language components are optionally available using GraalVM gu utility. The most notable changes from the previous GraalVM release can be found on the website: http://www.graalvm.org/docs/release-notes/