List of JVM languages

JVM languages

High-profile languages

• Java, a statically-typed object-oriented language
• Kotlin, a statically-typed language from JetBrains, the developers of IntelliJ IDEA and Google's preferred language for Android
• Scala, a statically-typed object-oriented and functional programming language
• Groovy, a dynamic programming language and scripting language
• Clojure, a dynamic, and functional dialect of the Lisp programming language

New languages with JVM implementations

• Ateji PX, an extension of Java for easy parallel programming on multicore, GPU, Grid and Cloud
• Ballerina, a language for cloud applications with structural typing; network client objects, services, resource functions, and listeners; parallel concurrency with workers; image building; configuration management.
• BeanShell, a scripting language whose syntax is close to Java
• EPL, a domain-specific, data manipulation language for analyzing and detecting patterns in timed event streams, which extends SQL 92 with event-oriented features. It is implemented by Esper: up to version 6 EPL was mostly a language interpreted by a Java library; since version 7 it is compiled to JVM bytecode.
• , an open source JVM language designed for building reliable, scalable, high performance concurrent, distributed and parallel systems.
• Ceylon, a Java competitor from Red Hat
• CFML, ColdFusion Markup Language, more commonly known as CFML, is a scripting language for web development that runs on the JVM, the.NET framework, and Google App Engine.
• Quark Framework, a Haskell-inspired functional language
• E-on-Java, object-oriented language for secure distributed computing
• Eta, pure, lazy, strongly typed functional language in the spirit of Haskell
• Fantom, a language built from the base to be portable across the JVM,.NET Common Language Runtime, and JavaScript
• Flix, a functional, imperative, and logic language with first-class Datalog constraints and a polymorphic effect system.
• Flow Java
• Fortress, a language designed by Sun as a successor to Fortran, mainly for parallel scientific computing. Product development was taken over by Oracle when Sun was purchased. Oracle then stopped development in 2012 according to Dr. Dobb's.
• Frege, a non-strict, pure functional language in the spirit of Haskell
• Golo, a simple, dynamic, weakly-typed language for the JVM developed at Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon, France, now an incubating project at the Eclipse Software Foundation.
• Gosu, an extensible type-system language compiled to JVM bytecode
• Haxe, a cross-platform statically typed language that targets Java and the JVM.
• Ioke, a prototype-based language somewhat reminiscent of Io, with similarities to Ruby, Lisp, and Smalltalk
• Jelly
• Join Java, a language that extends Java with join-calculus semantics
• Joy
• Manifold is a Java compiler "plugin." Its features include Metaprogramming, Properties, Extension Methods, Operator Overloading, Templates, a Preprocessor, and more.
• Mirah, a customizable language featuring type inference and a highly Ruby-inspired syntax
• NetLogo, a multi-agent language
• Noop, a language built with testability as a major focus
• Pizza, a superset of Java with function pointers and algebraic data types
• Pnuts
• Processing, a visualization and animation language and framework based on Java with a Java-like syntax
• , a language "designed to create business applications in the cloud". It is part of the namesake platform to design business applications directly in the cloud. The Prompto language includes three "dialects": Engly, Monty, and Objy. Engly "mimics English as much as possible", Monty "tries to follow as much as possible the syntax of the Python 3 language", and Objy "tries to follow as much as possible the syntax of OOP languages such as C++, Java or C#". All three dialects seamlessly translate to one another.
• RascalMPL, a source and target language independent meta language
• Whiley
• X10, a language designed by IBM, featuring constrained types and a focus on concurrency and distribution
• Xtend, an object-oriented, functional, and imperative programming language built by the Eclipse foundation, featuring tight Java interoperability, with a focus on extension methods and lambdas, and rich tooling
• , an ML style functional language
• , a language that aims to simplify and extend the object oriented paradigm.
• Yoix, general purpose, non-object-oriented, interpreted dynamic language
• , a dynamic declarative interpreted language.

Comparison of these languages