Let's Meetup and take GraalVM for a spin

Welcome to the Oracle Engineering office at Münchenbryggeriet. Here we are working on products like Java, the JVM and related technologies.

This time we have invited Chris Seaton from Oracle Labs who will talk about the highly anticipated GraalVM!
Oracle Labs is working on a new native compiler for the Java Virtual Machine called Graal. Graal is 'one compiler to rule them all', meaning we use it for both just-in-time compilation, and ahead-of-time compilation, for Java, JavaScript, Ruby, R, Python, C and other languages.

You may have heard the term 'Graal' but you are probably not aware of how many incredible things it can do.

It can run your Java application faster, compile Java to standalone native executables that start instantly, compile Java libraries to native libraries, run languages like JavaScript, Ruby, R, Python, including polyglot programs written in more than one of these languages, it can run native languages like C and C++ on the JVM, it gives you tools like debuggers that work across languages, and much more.

About Chris Seaton:
Chris Seaton is a Research Manager at the Virtual Machine Group in Oracle Labs, where he leads the work to implement Ruby using the next generation of Java Virtual Machine technology and other projects.
Before this he completed a PhD at the University of Manchester under the
supervision of Doctor Mikel Luján, where he researched programming languages and irregular parallelism, and he earned an MEng at the University of Bristol on languages with mutable syntax and semantics.

Agenda
17:30 Doors open

18:00 What is GraalVM?
Overview of the technology (English)

19:00 Hands on labs on GraalVM (English)

If you bring your laptop to participate in the hands-on labs you can download and install GraalVM before the event. This will make things run smoother at the event.
Instructions for downloading and setting up the labs can be found in our Slack channel!
http://bit.ly/graalvm-labs
Channel: "graalvm-meetup"

Documentation
https://www.graalvm.org/docs/getting-started/

More information about GraalVM:
www.graalvm.org
Github: https://www.github.com/oracle/graal
Twitter: @graalvm

Food and drinks as usual.
Any questions or concerns let us know!
See you all at the meetup!