What is a runtime environment in programming?
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People write the code months or years in advance. They do special processing of that human readable code to make a computer able to use it. It’s not human readable after that.
All the mistakes they make were therefore made months or years ago, and are waiting in code like seeds in the spring to sprout.
When that code is actually running, at that moment, it is in a runtime environment. All the instructions and all the places important information is kept is contained in RAM on the computer while the program runs.
Sometimes things break in code that can only be found in a runtime environment, which is why they can dump out every location in memory of that running code so they can review what it looks like versus what it should look like. This is not a quick process.
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