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pjmlp on June 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pencil – an open-source GUI prototyping tool for a...

Flash haters might not be aware, but Flash compiles to native code just like C does.

Support was added to workaround Steve Jobs hate for it on iOS.

webmaven on June 27, 2017 [–]

You can compile JS (or pretty much any other language, really) to native code with sufficient effort. I'm not sure that alone is sufficient.

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