Architecture

Elide is powered by several insanely cool technologies. In no particular order:

• GraalVM is Elide's main execution engine and guest interpreter/compiler. Elide leverages Truffle language engines, including GraalJs, GraalPython, TruffleRuby, and Sulong.

• Most of Elide is written in Kotlin and built against the JVM 23. Thus, Elide's own code is checked extensively at build-time for null safety, and is memory-safe by default.

• Native portions of Elide are written in Rust, which extends safety guarantees as much as possible even outside the context of the JVM/SVM.

• Networking in Elide is powered by Netty, which offers world-class performance and durability for networked applications.

• Elide embeds best-of-breed tooling for guest languages: oxc, orogene, and uv are available transparently. Pkl is supported for configuration and interoperable data expression.

• Micronaut wires together Elide internally, with build-time dependency injection (DI). This architecture is what keeps startup time fast while preserving modularity.

How Elide works