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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by fiddlerwoaroof on Sunday July 16, 2017 @10:33PM (#14785278)
Fwiw, lisps have a somewhat interesting third way: you distribute everything in a single image like a statically linked program. But, since that image includes the compiler, it can upgrade itself.
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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by lispm on Monday July 17, 2017 @02:32AM (#14786135)
Or they include a loader and can load code, code which may be compiled somewhere else.
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