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Re:How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App by flukus on Friday May 19, 2017 @12:31AM (#14373041)
To what degree are they native? I wouldn't consider something native just because it bundles the VM into the exe.
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Re:How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App by pjmlp on Friday May 19, 2017 @01:07AM (#14373162)
To the same degree as C is native, there isn't any VM doing JIT compilation.

All straight sugar free Assembly instructions.

Now if you mixing the notions of VM and runtime, even C has a runtime called crt0 on most UNIX systems.

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Re:How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App by flukus on Friday May 19, 2017 @01:50AM (#14373304)
> Now if you mixing the notions of VM and runtime, even C has a runtime called crt0 on most UNIX systems.

I was mixing them up. The line seems be kind of blurry though once you start embedding garbage collectors though, then again the GC could just as easily be in an external library.

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