> Another promoted benefit of bytecode is compile-once-run-anywhere. However, I think this is a hoax. I was once working on a large project on the JVM: our Fat

> Another promoted benefit of bytecode is compile-once-run-anywhere. However, I think this is a hoax. I was once working on a large project on the JVM: our Fat-JAR was really working on Linux, Mac and Windows. The exact same JAR. And it didn't matter on which system we have built that JAR. This may not be possible for every use case - but I don't think it is a hoax. > It is not special, for script languages code runs anywhere without compiling. IMHO scripting languages like Ruby, Python, etc. are quite hard to deploy, especially if they have dependencies. In comparison to languages like Java, Go or Rust.