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There's an entire list of existing languages that compile to the jvm. A small sample:

COBOL Common Lisp Haskell JavaScript

Most of the languages are not similar to Java.

Scala is definitely NOT Java

No, but he's arguing that Scala compiles to Java bytecode

By "Java" I meant the runtime, apologies.

How lucky the young must be, to not hear of Java nor JRE.