Java on Truffle in GraalVM 21 brings Java up to snuff with Python, Ruby, and JavaScript on the multi-language virtual machine.

Java is simple and familiar. Java is object-oriented. Java is architecture-neutral. Java is robust and secure. Java is multithreaded. Java is capable of high performance. Java is statically typed and ...

The .NET platform aims to provide safe execution of code, to deliver better performance than interpreted languages do, and to make the developer experience consistent across a wide variety of apps.