That's because I was responding at a level of detail appropriate for the parent comment: I thought Java was on a much lower level than Python. Why is C more lo

That's because I was responding at a level of detail appropriate for the parent comment: I thought Java was on a much lower level than Python. Why is C more low-level? At that level of understanding, I think it is just fine to assume that Java means Oracle JVM, Python means CPython, and C/C++ means gcc (or your choice of C-to-native compiler). Yes there are many alternative implementations of these languages, but for the most part those are pretty obscure and a beginner does not need to know or care about them just yet.