GraalVM Reference Manual

Reference manual describes everything there is to know about GraalVM, its architecture, implementation details, command line utilities’ options, compatibility with the default VMs for the supported languages and so on.

Pick your favorite programming language and proceed to its page:

If you want to see whether GraalVM would work for your project, the first stepis to ensure the libraries and modules you use as dependencies work with GraalVM.To do it, please use the GraalVM language compatibility tool.

To learn how to write polyglot applications and pass polyglot command line arguments see the polyglot reference page.

Learn how polyglot applications can be embedded in Java applications or native images in the embedding reference page.

For information on compiling your applications ahead-of-time and creating nativebinaries with GraalVM please refer to the Native Image page.

More information on GraalVM Updater, the utility used to install language packs into the GraalVM distribution, for example Ruby, R, or Python, can be found on the GraalVM Updater page.