A viable business model is key to language adoption. For the last 18 months, we at Java Magazine have been covering all sorts of interesting JVM languages — from the well known to the obscure. There is no doubt we could continue doing this for another couple of years without covering the same language twice. That’s in many ways the glory of the JVM: it is a great platform for language back ends. The benefits of the JVM include performance, wide availability and familiarity, excellent tool...