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I am curious about this as well.

Taking a look at the source (https://github.com/yhat/rodeo) it appears to be in all python.

I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that native referred to code which compiled to assembly.

When referring to tooling for a language, 'native' tends to mean it's written in that language.

I always thought native meant native to the platform.

Let's see, we're running a browser, which runs a JavaScript VM, which runs the our node.js logic, which runs Python, which calls into native numpy. See, native!

I have this visceral reaction when I can tell something is based on Electron or IWebBrowser, 2.0.

as in native desktop