>I use JVM, .NET, Web and C++, not caring if the runtimes are bare metal or running on top of an OS, type 1 hypervisor, or whatever. If you're downloading a JV

>I use JVM, .NET, Web and C++, not caring if the runtimes are bare metal or running on top of an OS, type 1 hypervisor, or whatever. If you're downloading a JVM binary, you're missing out on the build step. It's C dependent, friend. How do you think that VM interfaces with the OS? Go on. Try it. ldd the java executable. It's libc all the way down. C itself is a sort of "VM" specification utilized to create the tools to run the tools to build the tools that make other high level languages possible. Unless you create something entirely custom in platform specific assembly, you're running on C at some level.