GraalVM vs Multipass

Multipass vs GraalVM: What are the differences?

What is Multipass? Instant Ubuntu VMs. It's a system that orchestrates the creation, management and maintenance of virtual machines and associated Ubuntu images to simplify development.

What is GraalVM? A universal virtual machine for running applications (by Oracle). An ecosystem and shared runtime offering performance advantages not only to JVM-based languages such as Java, Scala, Groovy, and Kotlin, but also to programming languages as JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and R. Additionally, it enables the execution of native code on the JVM via LLVM front-end.

Multipass and GraalVM can be primarily classified as "Virtual Machine" tools.

Some of the features offered by Multipass are:

• Ubuntu LTS on tap
• Up to date
• Native hypervisor

On the other hand, GraalVM provides the following key features:

• Polyglot - Zero overhead interoperability between programming languages allows you to write polyglot applications and select the best language for your task
• Native - Native images compiled with GraalVM ahead-of-time improve the startup time and reduce the memory footprint of JVM-based applications
• Embeddable - GraalVM can be embedded in both managed and native applications. There are existing integrations into OpenJDK, Node.js, Oracle Database, and MySQL

GraalVM is an open source tool with 13.2K GitHub stars and 960 GitHub forks. Here's a link to GraalVM's open source repository on GitHub.