I agree there are different motivations for alt-jvm languages, and I guess Kotlin should be mentioned as well. Many developers are in for the (supposedly) great

I agree there are different motivations for alt-jvm languages, and I guess Kotlin should be mentioned as well. Many developers are in for the (supposedly) greater language expressiveness or productivity; personally I'd be more interested in a language specifically targeting the case to slowly migrate away from the JVM and JIT compilation into machine code and AOT (ARM and x86).