runtime environment

Code execution platform

A runtime environment is the software infrastructure that executes a program—providing memory management, system access, and other services the code needs to run.

Different languages have different runtime environments: Java programs run in the Java Virtual Machine, JavaScript runs in browsers or Node.js.

The app crashed because the runtime environment wasn't properly configured.

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execution · operating systems · heap · JVM · memory management · garbage collection · compiler · runtime · threading · API · interpreter · framework · deploy · dependency · interface · instance · debugging tools · kernel

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development phase

runtime environmentbuild time

Software assembly duration

IDE · pre-production

code state

runtime environmentsource code

Programming instructions before compilation

codebase · bytecode

execution status

runtime environmentidle state

Inactive but available condition

dormant state

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