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GraalJS – A high-performance, ECMAScript compliant, and embeddable JavaScript runtime for Java

21 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 1 story, 20 comments · first 2018-04-17 · latest 2025-07-17

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  1. …https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/regex / https://epub.jku.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubl:1-24940 [2] https://github.com/oracle/graaljs
    comment by gudzpoz · 2025-07-17 · in Linear Matching of JavaScript Regular Expressions
  2. …thub.com/mozilla/rhino/blob/Rhino1_7_14_Release/LI... > and OP's repo is MIT whereas Graal is UPLv1 < https://github.com/oracle/graaljs/blob/graal-23.1.2/LICENSE >. GitHub's license gizmo claims it is OSI/FSF approved, but Oracle gonna…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-03-10 · in An ES5-compliant JavaScript interpreter, written in Java
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    GraalJS: Node.js compliant JavaScript implementation built on GraalVM by Oracle
    story by philonoist · 2023-08-15 · 1 comment
  4. It's by Oracle: https://github.com/oracle/graaljs; seems to be built to interop w/ GraalVM based languages/services
    comment by h4ch1 · 2023-03-05 · in Bun vs Node Benchmark - no one cares about speed as much as your CI does
  5. …incredibly incomplete) python 2.x support; do you know if python-wasm would run on top of GraalJS ( https://github.com/oracle/graaljs#nodejs-support )? Separately, do you want issues related to zython.org in the cowasm issue tracker? It…
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-10-30 · in CoWasm: An alternative to Emscripten, based on Zig (demo: Python in the browser)
  6. …to be compatible with Node.js applications. That's where the commits come from I'd guess. Compare: https://github.com/oracle/graaljs/tree/master/graal-js https://github.com/oracle/graaljs/tree/master/graal-nodejs
    comment by chrisseaton · 2022-09-04 · in Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark
  7. Must be a fork because I found my own commits haha https://github.com/oracle/graaljs/commits?author=styfle
    comment by styfle · 2022-09-04 · in Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark
  8. …write this article if he was one of the top contributors to GraalJS which is what this graph says: https://github.com/oracle/graaljs/graphs/contributors
    comment by styfle · 2022-09-04 · in Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark
  9. …[3] https://github.com/oracle/fastr/releases/tag/vm-21.1.0 [4] https://github.com/oracle/graaljs
    comment by wdanilo · 2021-07-07 · in Launch HN: Enso (YC S21) – Visual programming and workflow automation tool
  10. …it explicitly, especially the compatibility mode flag (`-Dpolyglot.js.nashorn-compat=true`). See https://github.com/oracle/graaljs/blob/master/docs/user/Nash... [1] https://github.com/oracle/graaljs
    comment by brabel · 2021-05-07 · in JavaScript for Shell Scripting
  11. The GraalJS license is apparently similar to MIT: https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/blob/master/LICENSE "The Universal Permissive License (UPL), Version 1.0" And about the UPL: https://tldrlegal.com/license/universal-permissive-license-1..…
    comment by KajMagnus · 2020-11-29 · in Standalone Nashorn 15.0 is out
  12. …V8 on performance, so I would've thought it the obvious choice for new projects going forward. https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs Edit: found more info about this release in the initial announcement: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/…
    comment by hansjorg · 2020-11-29 · in Standalone Nashorn 15.0 is out
  13. …out the docs on the GraalVM website (e.g. [7]). [1] https://doi.org/10.1145/2509578.2509581 [2] https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/tree/a36b978aa328a8da3a7f... [3] https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/blob/a36b978aa328a8da3a7f... [4]…
    comment by fniephaus · 2020-08-10 · in GraalVM
  14. …or async/await, but it'll be just as efficient as Node. It can load sources from URLs too (see https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/blob/master/docs/user/Jav... ) It feels like Deno has focused on adding JS-specific features, and sandboxing…
    comment by thu2111 · 2020-05-20 · in Is Node.js Dying?
  15. …on Graal, even though Graal is currently at least 2.5x slower than V8 in terms of JS performance: https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/issues/74 Node core (and the libraries around it) has unfortunately stalled in the "good enough" zone for…
    comment by spion · 2020-02-15 · in A 7KB AWS lambda Node.js library with zero runtime dependencies
  16. …under the Universal Permissive License these days, which explicitly deals with patent grants. e.g. https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/blob/master/LICENSE https://opensource.org/licenses/UPL I think Graal itself is GPL2+Classpath because…
    comment by repolfx · 2019-09-26 · in Graal Autovectorization
  17. Until GraalJS can get even close to native JS VMs in performance, I still think of it as Java VM. https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/issues/74
    comment by cromwellian · 2019-09-16 · in GraalVM: The holy graal of polyglot JVM?
  18. …that the JavaScript produced by ClojureScript runs quickly under Graal.js. For more details, see https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/issues/29
    comment by mfikes · 2019-05-10 · in ClojureScript: Graal.js REPL Environment
  19. GraalVM is also an alternative. It might be able to run your existing NodeJS project on JVM. https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs
    comment by truth_seeker · 2019-04-22 · in Comparing JVM alternatives to JavaScript
  20. …angular integration (just without running node!). However Graal can only run "pure" JavaScript ( https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/issues/2 ). (native-image does not work with Scala 2.12 (Scala 2.12 emit's indy which does not work with…
    comment by merb · 2018-05-04 · in First impressions about Graal VM
  21. …are here: Graal: https://github.com/oracle/graal (GPLv2 with CPE) JavaScript with Node Integration: https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs (UPL - BSD license) Ruby: https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby (EPL, GPLv2, LGPL) R:…
    comment by grashalm · 2018-04-17 · in GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere