On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 14:18:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: > You can write DLLs in Java, for example with > http://www.excelsiorjet.com/. > > The fact that the Java reference implementation is a VM, > doesn't tie the language to a VM. > True, but it is VERY hard to get performance out of it outside a VM. Java is tailored for a VM.