For the past 20 years, the "write once, run anywhere" promise had a dirty secret: it only ran well after a long, painful warm-up. Cold starts were the enemy. Serverless was a fantasy. And native images? That was for C++ folks.

🔥 Graal changed the game. Now it’s just the rules.

We’re living through the – where Java finally becomes a truly native citizen on the cloud, edge, and desktop. No warm-up. No bullshit.