Yesterday's release post introduced the new native Linux desktop port. This post is the detailed version: what it is, why the hard parts were hard, and how to build one.
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The Linux port is the structural twin of the native Windows port from last week. It is the same idea the iOS port has used for years: ParparVM translates your Java and Kotlin bytecode to C, and the C is compiled and linked into a native binary. On Linux that binary is a single self-contained ELF. There is no JVM on the user's machine, none bundled, none downloaded, and none required.
What renders it
Where the Windows port uses Direct2D and DirectWrite, the Linux port uses the GTK stack that every Linux desktop already has:
