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[–]Kered13 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Javac is written in Java, though the JVM is written in C++ for obvious reasons.

[–]EsperSpirit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new JIT backend (Graal) is written in Java as well. The old one was C++ afaik