The document discusses the adoption of GraalVM, highlighting its performance benefits through just-in-time (JIT) and ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation, particularly for Scala applications. It addresses limitations such as library support and compatibility with JDK versions and provides benchmarking results comparing traditional JVM performance with GraalVM. Furthermore, it outlines potential use cases for GraalVM in small programs, AWS Lambdas, and other applications.