Comment by avaer
11 hours ago
A runtime is needed for GC, unless you're fundamentally changing Javascript. Even golang has a runtime.
11 hours ago
A runtime is needed for GC, unless you're fundamentally changing Javascript. Even golang has a runtime.
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.