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Java was not. It was originally designed to be interpreted, and is still interpreted in many implementations (especially before any JIT kicks in). In any case,

Java was not. It was originally designed to be interpreted, and is still interpreted in many implementations (especially before any JIT kicks in). In any case, those were just the examples I could think of OTOH. MSIL/CIL is another good example; I’m sure there are many others.

neonsunset 2y ago
Technically speaking, CIL is always compiled by CoreCLR (it has interpreter internally but it is never used and therefore has succumbed to bitrot), it is sometimes interpreted by Mono on certain platforms as a stand in for dynamically emitted code. A special case used to be with WASM target with Mono but supposedly that's in the past.