Java isn’t required for the JVM of course. Scala is pretty great. I’ll throw my hat in the ring for C# on .NET Core. Just need the dotnet binary to init, build,

Java isn’t required for the JVM of course. Scala is pretty great. I’ll throw my hat in the ring for C# on .NET Core. Just need the dotnet binary to init, build, install, restore, run. It’s like if node included npm in the same binary.