> Fully native allows you to choose to have no runtime, or a garbage collector, Are you quite sure of that? I think you're getting stuff mixed up here. AFAICS,

> Fully native allows you to choose to have no runtime, or a garbage collector, Are you quite sure of that? I think you're getting stuff mixed up here. AFAICS, a native-compiled language might very well have mandatory garbage collection. Not that any such language immediately springs to mind, and I'm not even sure any do actually exist, but surely they could exist. The concepts "native compilation" and "garbage collection" are, AIUI, orthogonal.