> in .NET or JVM tooling has total control over underlying machine I don't understand at all which kind of control which is different from something else relat

> in .NET or JVM tooling has total control over underlying machine I don't understand at all which kind of control which is different from something else related to C or C++. Can you please be a bit more cpecific in describing what you think that .NET and JVM have? Edit: to the reply below, in full "A virtual machine." Duh. Of course .NET or JVM have a virtual machine each. But what's the support for the rest of the claim: > VMs have a lot of sense nowadays, especially with multithreading. No one can now dismiss them because they are "heavy" or "unnecessary", unlike, say, 10 years ago I failed to see how that follows from the starting statement.