Names matter, though. For as long as the JVM has been called the "JVM" it has been associated with the Java language. Using the Java language on other VMs conf

Names matter, though. For as long as the JVM has been called the "JVM" it has been associated with the Java language. Using the Java language on other VMs confuses people in exactly the same way that using the Java Virtual Machine for other languages confuses people. The outcome might have been different had they called it something like HLVM instead of JVM.