Ask HN: Why are there no traditional language compilers that target the JVM?
by warrenm on Hacker News.
Or maybe there are , and my Google-fu is weak. “Traditional” compilable languages, like C, C++, FORTRAN, etc all ought to be targetable to a portable runtime like the JVM (since it defines its own instruction set (Java byte code)). Scala and other languages target the JVM as their runtime environment. Why not older/traditionally-compiled languages?