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ART is a JVM, it's just not a just-in-time compiling JVM.

The JVM is fine for multiple programming languages, as Kotlin nicely proves. And Kotlin targets Java 6 so it should work fine on Android, even though now Android supports Java 7 language features. The missing parts are the Java 7 API's: unfortunately the class library, being based on Apache Harmony (a dead project) does not move forward on Android. However this does not have any effect on Kotlin.



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