Ask HN: Why are there no traditional language compilers that target the JVM?

• renjin

  5 513 0.0 R

  JVM-based interpreter for the R language for the statistical analysis.

  

  There is the GraalVM Python Runtime, Renjin GCC-Bridge (for C, C++, R)...

  I feel like all of this kind of exists but it's quite esoteric "non-standard stuff" and not necessarily something sane people want in production.

  https://github.com/bedatadriven/renjin/tree/master/tools/gcc...

  https://www.graalvm.org/python/

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• asmble

  7 633 3.0 Kotlin

  Compile WebAssembly to JVM and other WASM tools

  Sure, compile to WASM and then use https://github.com/cretz/asmble to convert to JVM bytecode.

• oberonc

  7 149 4.1 Modula-2

  An Oberon-07 compiler for the JVM

  The Oberon programming language is 37 years old. Since it is a memory safe language a compiler for the JVM can be written (with some workarounds), for example see the self-hosting compiler oberonc [0].

  [0] https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc

• tracer

  2 5 6.8 Java

  Graal based x86 interpreter with separate execution trace analyzer (by pekd)

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