FWIW Graal is probably one of the most exciting technologies to come out of Oracle in a long time.

It came out of Oracle. Kids of death.

It actually didn’t, it came out of academia. Oracle just did the right thing one time.

It's GPL-licensed, and it works. I'm happy they haven't Oracle-ized the JVM, and have been investing into great features that are available to everyone for free.

Agreed. Anything by Oracle is an automatic hard nope.