Java Hello World, LLVM Edition

Wondering the benefits and how is this different from using GraalVM to build native images?

For eg. we could use Spring + Graal VM and get the application into native binaries without worrying too much about the low level stuff.

What are we missing?

This article specifically discusses calling external C ABI libraries via the FFM API.

GraalVM is for compiling JVM bytecode to native, architecture-specific binaries.

FFM is like "[DllImport]" in .NET, or "extern" definitions in other languages.

The article shows how to auto-generate JVM bindings from C headers, and then allocate managed memory + interact with externally linked libs via the FFM API passing along said managed memory.