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Re:Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using S... by avaer on Saturday May 30, 2026 @02:38AM (#48333299)
A runtime is needed for GC, unless you're fundamentally changing Javascript. Even golang has a runtime.
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Re:Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using S... by pjmlp on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:57AM (#48333801)
Even C has one, regardless of how tiny it happens to be, or the possibility of freestanding deployment.

In compiler speak, a runtime provides all infrastructure required by the language for program startup, shutdown, infrastructure for the standard library execution.

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Re:Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using S... by amlug on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:36PM (#48339845)
RUntime is an overused term here. The point is "no JS runtime, JIT-type"

Of course there is a (native) runtime, as there is for all languages (like you said) :)

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