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A runtime is needed for GC, unless you're fundamentally changing Javascript. Even golang has a runtime.
by avaer 5mo ago
A runtime is needed for GC, unless you're fundamentally changing Javascript. Even golang has a runtime.
- pjmlp 5mo agoEven C has one, regardless of how tiny it happens to be, or the possibility of freestanding deployment. In compiler speak, a runtime provides all infrastructure required by the language for program startup, shutdown, infrastructure for the standard library execution.
- amlug 5mo agoRUntime is an overused term here. The point is "no JS runtime, JIT-type" Of course there is a (native) runtime, as there is for all languages (like you said) :)