It's compilation all the way down. I write C#, and it is compiled to CIL, which gets further compiled via the JIT into asm. CIL, or JVM bytecode, or LLVM IR is

It's compilation all the way down. I write C#, and it is compiled to CIL, which gets further compiled via the JIT into asm. CIL, or JVM bytecode, or LLVM IR is just one more step in the compilation chain.