We have Dr. Thomas Wuerthinger – founder of GraalVM visiting Australia in February and we have been able to get him to the meetup. The GraalVM project enhances the Java ecosystem with an integrated, polyglot, high-performance execution environment for dynamic, static, and native languages. GraalVM supports Java, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, and other JVM-based languages. At the same time, it can run the dynamic scripting languages JavaScript including Node.js, Ruby, R, and Python. Balancing the main performance indicators peak throughput, startup…