High-profile Languages
Apart from the Java language itself, the most common or well-known JVM languages are:
- Clojure, a functional Lisp dialect
- Processing, a visualization and animation language and framework based on Java with a Java-like syntax.
- Groovy, a scripting language
- Scala, an object-oriented and functional programming language
- Gosu
- Fantom, formerly known as Fan
- Kotlin, statically typed programming language compiled to JVM byte code and JavaScript by Jetbrains
- JavaFX Script, a scripting language targeting the Rich Internet Application domain (discontinued 2010)
- JRuby, an implementation of Ruby
- Jython, an implementation of Python
- Rhino, an implementation of JavaScript
- Armed Bear Common Lisp, a full implementation of Common Lisp
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Famous quotes containing the word languages:
“I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)