I'm sure GraalVM has its uses, but for actually getting things done in a tiny script, Joker is incredibly effective. Joker is a 15M self-contained executable and Joker scripts are tiny. For scripting, where you often want to iterate quickly, it's nice not to have a build process to generate a large executable.
Having fast startup via GraalVM would be terrific for, say, AWS Lambda.
For what I used Joker for, I want to be able to make changes locally and quickly and not have a build process.
A current example is our internal DevOps script, fleet; it's about 1300 lines of code, with 25 sub-commands. fleet help executes in .22 seconds - that's time for Joker to initialize, load several libraries, and the 1300 lines of code, organize a bunch of stuff, and print out the command list. Fast enough for me.
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I'm sure GraalVM has its uses, but for actually getting things done in a tiny script, Joker is incredibly effective. Joker is a 15M self-contained executable and Joker scripts are tiny. For scripting, where you often want to iterate quickly, it's nice not to have a build process to generate a large executable.
Having fast startup via GraalVM would be terrific for, say, AWS Lambda.
For what I used Joker for, I want to be able to make changes locally and quickly and not have a build process.
A current example is our internal DevOps script, fleet; it's about 1300 lines of code, with 25 sub-commands.
fleet helpexecutes in .22 seconds - that's time for Joker to initialize, load several libraries, and the 1300 lines of code, organize a bunch of stuff, and print out the command list. Fast enough for me.