The Introduction to GraalVM starts with: GraalVM is an advanced JDK with ahead-of-time Native Image compilation. ‘Native Image compilation’ means that a Java program - and its dependencies - can be compiled into a single executable. So instead of multiple .jar files that require an installed JDK, GraalVM creates a single file that works without JDK (but this file is now platform specific). While the Native Image compilation is the most popular feature, the GraalVM project has some other tricks up its sleeve.

During job interviews an evergreen question is “Tell me about tasks you enjoy” or in a similar vein “What were your biggest successes during the last project?” I always found it hard to come up with a good answer on the spot, simply because I did not think about it before. Of course there are some tasks that I enjoy more than other tasks, but what elements do they have in common?