> Yeah, and those are also the opposite of "solid" :) So if that's what the author meant by "solid", i.e. few environmental dependencies, then it's not really

> Yeah, and those are also the opposite of "solid" :) So if that's what the author meant by "solid", i.e. few environmental dependencies, then it's not really about "native" or not, but about how the language/runtime is designed. Languages that started out as "scripting" languages often do rely on the environment a lot, but that's not how, say, Java or .NET work. > I'm so glad that Go and Rust promote static linking as the default (ignoring glibc). That doesn't work so well (and so usually not done) once you have a GUI, although I guess you consider the GUI to be part of the kernel.