> there's potential :)
To be owned by Larry Ellison.
Valid point, but to a degree I still see this for the whole Java ecosystem. Many people over the last 20 years were dissuaded from using Java just because of the looming Oracle "threat".
I'm not advocating to make GraalVM a mandatory dependency, just saying this could be an interesting project for people who are annoyed at the status quo, and there are a lot of startup speed complaints.
Unfortunately my day job has nothing to do with any JVM or Clojure anymore, so I can't divert any time there.
Oracle didn't own java 20 years ago :)
That said there's a lot of FUD around Oracle ownership nowadays but most of it is moot since OpenJDK is the fundation of Oracle's Java.
GraalVM is itself an open-source project that is licensed under the exact same license as OpenJDK [1]. Feel free to download it and build it yourself to be extra sure [2]. All the FUD around this stuff and Oracle is a bit comical. It's all... right there.