Do non-Android Kotlin programs need a JRE to run?

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[Florian]

Do non-Android Kotlin programs need a JRE to run?

[Florian]

JVM yes

[Florian]

Thank you

[Florian]

but doesn't this kinda destroy the purpose of the JVM

[Florian]

because I have to make one for each OS

[robertoestivill]

Or compile it to native with Graalvm 😎 and ship a binary without jre

[Florian]

ok I see, thank you