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You can hammer an applications programming language to do systems things, but it will never be a good experience nor have optimal performance.

Could you write interrupt handlers in it? You can't even do synchronous signal handling in Java.

This [1] was the paper on it.

How would that even work with the JVM?

Probably https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle or similar would be the answer.