[chrisseaton]

They still have assemblers in them - they're just done with method calls rather than text.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/e73ce9b406c34bd460f0797f...

Also if you look at the compiler's intermediate representation at the very last phases you'll see it basically looks like an assembly program.

[saagarjha]

Pure interpreters like CPython?

[chrisseaton]

The interpreters themselves go through assembly language. Assembly is relevant because the whole stack is still actively built on it.