Elide — One Binary, Many Languages, Native Performance

One binary.
Many languages.
Native performance.

curl -sSL --tlsv1.2 elide.sh | bash -s -

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elide.pkl ↓elide install ↓

amends "elide:project.pkl"

name = "my-app"
local logbackVersion = "1.5.32"

dependencies {
  maven {
    packages {
      "com.google.guava:guava:33.5.0-jre"
      "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:2.0.17"
      "ch.qos.logback:logback-core:\(logbackVersion)"
      "ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:\(logbackVersion)"
    }
  }
}

$ elide install

Hello.ktelide build ↓

// Built-in compiler.

fun greeting(name: String = "Elide") = "Hello, ${name}!"

fun main() {
  val x = 42
  println(greeting() + " The answer is ${x}")
}

$ elide kotlinc -- Hello.kt

elide.pkl ↓

artifacts {
  ["classes"] = new Jvm.Jar {
    sources { "main" }
  }
  ["native"] = new Native.NativeImage {
    from { "classes" }
  }
}

$ elide build :native

5ms cold start on linux

100× faster than Next.js

36× faster than kotlinc

20× faster than javac

3× faster than CPython

🔒 Memory safe

elide.dev 2026

Benchmarks

~5ms cold start

SSR cold-start benchmarks on Linux x64.

Demo

elide.pkl ↓

amends "elide:project.pkl"

name = "my-app"
local logbackVersion = "1.5.32"

dependencies {
  maven {
    packages {
      "com.google.guava:guava:33.5.0-jre"
      "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:2.0.17"
      "ch.qos.logback:logback-core:\(logbackVersion)"
      "ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:\(logbackVersion)"
    }
  }
}

$ elide install

Hello.kt

// Built-in compiler.

fun greeting(name: String = "Elide") = "Hello, ${name}!"

fun main() {
  val x = 42
  println(greeting() + " The answer is ${x}")
}

$ elide kotlinc -- Hello.kt

elide.pkl ↓

artifacts {
  ["classes"] = new Jvm.Jar {
    sources { "main" }
  }
  ["native"] = new Native.NativeImage {
    from { "classes" }
  }
}

$ elide build :native

Kotlin

Kotlin as a first-class citizen. Compiler plugins, KotlinX, and JUnit out of the box. No plugins, no configuration; it just works.

import …kotlinx.serialization.json.Json
import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable

@Serializable
data class Config(val name: String, val port: Int)

fun main() {
  val config = Json.decodeFromString<Config>("""{"name":"elide","port":3000}""")
  println("Running ${config.name} on port ${config.port}")
}

NORMAL hello.kt 10L, 285B

$ elide run hello.kt

Running elide on port 3000

Dependencies

Apple Pkl as a manifest format. Like package.json or pom.xml, but typed and composable. Dependencies resolve automatically.

amends "elide:project.pkl"

name = "my-app"
local logbackVersion = "1.5.32"

dependencies {
  maven {
    packages {
      "com.google.guava:guava:33.5.0-jre"
      "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:2.0.17"
      "ch.qos.logback:logback-core:\(logbackVersion)"
      "ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:\(logbackVersion)"
    }
  }
}

NORMAL project.pkl 16L, 347B

Why Elide

Agents

Elide lets your agents see inside running programs so they can help modify behavior live—up to 75× faster than traditional runtimes. An AI agent can test code as it builds, inspect runtime state, and iterate without restarting. The runtime becomes a collaborator, not a black box.

Performance

100x faster than Next.js isn't a theoretical benchmark. It's what happens when you compile JavaScript to native machine code instead of interpreting it. Same for Python. Same for Kotlin.

Safety

You don’t have to rewrite in Rust to get memory safety—so you can protect yourself from 45% of software-related breaches. Elide sandboxes your existing JavaScript, Python, and JVM code at the runtime level. The safety comes from the runtime, not the language.

Productivity

No more, “which Node version?” No more, “which JDK?” No more, “which Python?” With one binary, every developer on the team can work in their favorite language.

Compatibility

No migration guide because there's nothing to migrate. Same file extensions, same imports, same APIs. Faster output.

Install

Script

$ curl -sSL --tlsv1.2 elide.sh | bash -s -

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Docker

$ docker run --rm -it elide.dev/elide

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GitHub Actions

uses: elide-dev/setup-elide@v4

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