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evil_buzzardtoday at 3:49 AM3 repliesview on HN

the claim of "no runtime" is a bit dubious... you're telling me that you're statically linking a full, modern UI library into every app?


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avaertoday at 6:38 AM

A runtime is needed for GC, unless you're fundamentally changing Javascript. Even golang has a runtime.

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skibztoday at 7:34 AM

Its documentation mentions a garbage collector.

https://docs.perryts.com/language/supported-features.html#ga...

satvikpendemtoday at 7:26 AM

They probably are, given that's how Flutter and other Rust GUI frameworks work too.