Devoxx Greece 2024 - The Caffeinated Gopher’s Guide to Language Runtimes: WebAssembly Edition

Speaker : Edoardo Vacchi What does Java have in common with Go? And what does GraalVM Native Image have to do with WebAssembly? You might have heard that GraalVM Native Image makes Java a valid alternative to Go. But have you ever heard that the similarities between the JDK and the Go runtime do not end there? And, did you know that compiling a program into WebAssembly has a lot in common with generating a native executable? In this session, learn more about the JDK, GraalVM Native Image, the Go runtime, and WebAssembly! Discover what these language runtimes have in common, what makes them different, and what they can learn from each other from the hands-on experience of a caffeinated Gopher.