Well, so you're right and you're wrong. You're right that the analogy doesn't quite capture everything here. On the other hand the analogy gets across most of

Well, so you're right and you're wrong. You're right that the analogy doesn't quite capture everything here. On the other hand the analogy gets across most of the point. I would have said "That's mostly right, but the interesting thing about sharing code on a VM is access to VM features and code shared on the platform, not just that it's possible to decouple a front end from a VM." or something to that effect.