Back when Java decompilers were much more primitive and easy-to-break than they are now, I wrote some mods for a Java game in a language called "Jade", which was essentially a textual syntax for raw JVM bytecode. Oddly enough I can't easily find any references to this tool online now.
Overtaken by HTML templating languages, gems and a dozen other things with the same name. Eventually these items reach such a density to form a black hole, sucking through the older items, perhaps to another place in spacetime.