I have recently been playing with Fan, a programming ... on the JVM and the .NET CLR. It does this by generating intermediate code (called fcode) that is dynamically translated into Java bytecodes ...

The JRE is the on-disk part of Java that creates the JVM ... JDK compiler to turn your text file into an executable program. Compiled code in Java is known as bytecode, and carries the .class ...

This approach significantly lowers the barrier for both experienced and novice developers by eliminating the immediate need to learn and configure additional tools like the Java compiler (javac ...