Think of Node-Five as a very small WebKit/Gecko engine for Node.js. It is written in JavaScript on top of Node-Qt, whereas Node-Qt itself is written in C++. Wh

Think of Node-Five as a very small WebKit/Gecko engine for Node.js. It is written in JavaScript on top of Node-Qt, whereas Node-Qt itself is written in C++. When I say "native apps" in this context I simply mean you don't need a traditional browser to run the apps, and the runtime interacts more closely with the OS (for example, Qt exposes native menu methods, native OpenGL, etc).