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Yet, we still a lot more new languages on the Java platform. Then say .NET which was designed to be polyglot.

• int_19h 7y ago
  If you look at those languages closely, they are usually high-level enough that they can be mapped reasonably well to the JVM object model, or else the language itself is intentionally designed around its limitations (e.g. Scala). But something like C++ doesn't really compile to Java bytecode well. .NET CIL is much better in that regard precisely because it was designed to be low-level enough to compile C to it - it has stuff like raw pointers and pointer arithmetic, stack-allocated arrays, unions etc. The reason why not many languages bothered is longstanding lack of cross-platform support - Mono was around for a while, sure, but it was not the official implementation, and nobody knew whether it'd still be there next year. Today that's not really an issue anymore, but by now wasm is a better choice.