Question

While looking at groovy compilation process using goovyc I observed that the groovc tool shipped with groovy is a script which internally runs a java main class (org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GroovyStarter).
So does this mean that when using groovc ,the groovy compilation itself occurs in a jvm process where it parses the source files and then converts them in to byte codes, all this happening using a jvm process.

Answer 1

Yes. The same is true for javac. In fact, the majority of programming languages has the main compiler written in the language itself. This practice is known as bootstrapping.