Building a CLI with Quarkus, Kotlin and GraalVM

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:17:00 +0200

Command-line tools are great for automation, but choosing the right technology stack to build them can be tricky. I recently set out to build a new command-line application to streamline some tasks, drawing from previous experiences where the tooling left me wanting more.

This time, I chose a different combination of technologies that better suits my needs: Kotlin, Quarkus, and GraalVM. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the setup and decisions behind this stack—so you can get up and running even faster when building your own CLI tools.

Building a programming language on GraalVM (Part 1)

Sun, 13 Oct 2019 16:27:13 +0200

If you’ve followed recent developments in the Java ecosystem, you must know GraalVM. Many blog posts cover how you can build native executables from Java source code. This is indeed exciting: your program starts faster, and consumes less memory. Other popular topics include building Java applications that run code in other languages. You can run JavaScript, Python, Ruby or R code in the JVM. But there’s more: in fact you can run any language inside the JVM! Are you curious how? Continue reading…

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Building a CLI with Quarkus, Kotlin and GraalVM

Building a programming language on GraalVM (Part 1)