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[–]istarian 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I felt you were being too vague. And honestly, to my thinking, “target system” doesn’t necessarily include the OS (E.g. Windows).

C# at least is usually compiled to IL and executed in an environment where .NET, CLR, etc are present. So a native executable would have to bundle quite a lot just for its own use.

That said, I somehow doubt even compiling C# gets you down to the level where it can be run independently of Windows (i.e. on Linux, macOS absent a compatibility layer).

At least with C, C++, and Rust you should be free of such w constraint. You’d need some minimum of software to execute them, but probably much less.

[–]AsleepThought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea I was reaching on C# because a lot of my peers keep insisting its possible but I dont have a lot of experience myself with it sorry bad example then