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Re:The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat by b00ty4breakfast on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:02AM (#47475137)
I'm not very familiar with rust but I'm pretty sure it has a runtime. Even C has a runtime.

Unless you're talking about an "environment" eg Node or the like

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Re:The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat by embedding-shape on Sunday March 22, 2026 @06:16AM (#47476035)
Indeed Rust has a runtime, I'm not sure why the whole "Rust has no runtime" comes from, I keep seeing it repeated from time to time, but can't find the origin of this, I don't think it's ever been true?
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Re:The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat by b00ty4breakfast on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:02AM (#47485394)
The only thing I can think is that folks are getting confused by stuff like the JRE and Node being called "runtime environments".
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