Why are interfaces in Java 8 allowed to have the main method?

Question

Why are interfaces allowed to have a main method in Java 8?

As stated in below code it works fine and produces output properly.

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Answer 1

More of an addendum: maybe one thought here is to resemble what you can do with the Application trait in Scala:

object Main extends Application {
  Console.println("Hello World!")
}

simply by extending Application, you turn a class into something that runs.