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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.

Why pick Java if not for JVM? It is mediocre language at most, 
very limited and poor feature-wise, lacking expressive power even 
compared to C++ (you can at least abuse templates in the latter). 
JVM, however, may be the best VM environment implementation out 
there and that can be useful.