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		oblio 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We shouldn't have needed lockfiles Java is compiled, FYI.

deepsun 35 days ago [–]

And interpreted.

Some call transforming .java to .class a transpilation, but then a lot of what we call compilation should also be called transpilation.

Well, Java can ALSO be AOT compiled to machine code, more popular nowadays (e.g. GraalVM).

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