[Online] September Java Meet-up

## We’re glad to have Sam Gammon with us to share his deep insights into the JVM. Kotlin cousins will find this session valuable too! ;)

## Details

Date: 29th September 2026, Tuesday.
Time: 6.00 PM to 7.00 PM

Online Talk:

The Runtime Strikes Back: Native Speed and AI-Aware Tooling for Java and Kotlin
The JVM gave us world-class languages, libraries, and reliability, but our toolchain hasn't kept pace with how fast development moves today. Elide is a single native binary that builds, checks, formats, tests, and runs Java and Kotlin code: one install, no warm-up, drop-in compatible with javac and kotlinc up to JDK 25. The result is up to 35x faster compilation, which transforms iteration speed. Elide ships a coding harness pre-tuned for JVM development that compounds with the runtime: up to 10x task effectiveness, 60% lower token usage, and dramatically better wall-clock time for agentic engineering. In this session, we'll look at what AI-native tooling means for JVM developers in practice, with live examples in Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot, all inside the stack you already know and love.

Speaker:
Sam Gammon is a software engineer and the author of Elide, an open source runtime and toolchain for the JVM and beyond. He's spent his career building things in Java and Kotlin, and started Elide to fix the parts of that experience that always felt slower than they should be.