SubstrateVM Questions

[Sidharth Kshatriya]

Graal/Truffle with Sulong seems to be a really compelling platform to build
a programming language! Uniquely, there are also a large number of papers
that go into detail on how things work. Its well documented too!

There is one point of concern and that is the warm up time of any
programming language JIT built on truffle/graal. Many dynamic scripting
languages need to start up quickly and do their job. So while long running
scripts will do the job well I'm concerned about the merits of making a
dynamic language port using graal/truffle with the long warmup.

I learnt about SubstrateVM in which you AOT compile some code which fixes
startup time issues. Is that something that will be available to external
implementers? Or will this just be something for scripting engines
"blessed" by Oracle?

Also this SubstrateVM sounds like its going to have an embedded hotspot VM
(if I can imagine correctly). Does that have implications for any external
party wanting to distribute their scripting engine executable?

Any information will be extremely welcome!

Cheers,

Sidharth