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What does it really mean when you say "This language runs on JVM"?

I have been hearing a lot lately regarding Scala, Clojure, etc which is supposed to run on JVM. Does this means that those languages are implementing the Java API underneath? What does it mean for a language to run under JVM?

Thanks.

Solution

  • It means that these languages can be compiled into Java bytecode, which the JVM executes.