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It is going to take ages to clear young developer minds that safe strong typed languages don't require a VM and we have to thank Sun and Microsoft to have spread that misconception.

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As an older developer, I'm ok with that :-)

Where does that come from? People who have only ever used Java or C#? I mean, there's nothing conceptually about VMs or strong typing that would lead to such a conclusion?

I would say, it is developers that:

- started coding after Java and .NET became mainstream

- only know C and C++ as compiled languages, never tried anything else (e.g. Modula-2, Delphi, Haskell, ...)

- lack CS background

So they think any language with stronger type system than C or C++ can only be provided via a VM based runtime.

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