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Re:Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again by klodolph on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:06AM (#15904046)
At least historically speaking, this wasn’t true. And the fact that it’s true today for Java and C# is an anomaly, since for most of the history of those languages native compilation was either third party, second-class with missing features, or both. Look at GCJ or Excelsior (commercial).

Or look at Python, which is also compiled. Or Ruby, or JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart…

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Re:Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again by mustardo on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:27AM (#15904148)
With say a java app thou you'd typically get a .zip with all your class path dependencies and a launcher in one bundle. This is not the case for ruby, js (node), python etc where the norm is to splatter dependencies across your file system. Its not quite static linking but closer
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Re:Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again by pjmlp on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:22AM (#15904130)
Language and implementation is not the same thing.

Does not matter where the implementation comes from, if it is free or commercial, what matters is that it exists.

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