Comment by yorwba

Jython doesn't look completely unmaintained: https://hg.python.org/jython

It's also not completely obsoleted by Kotlin, e.g. for the use case of calling a Python library from Java. However, the Python semantics are not a great fit for the JVM, so you should expect it to be slower than plain CPython: https://pybenchmarks.org/u64q/jython.php