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tags:
- dev
- Binding is an API that provides glue code
- Allows language to use a foreign library or OS
## Runtime Environments
### Object Models
- COM
- [C++](Languages/C++.md)
- Component Object Model
- MS only cross-language model
- CLI
- [#dotnet](Languages/dotNet.md)
- .NET Common Language Infrastructure
- Freedesktop.org D-Bus
- Open cross-platform-language model
### Virtual Machines
- CLR
- .NET Common Language Runtime
- Mono
- CLI languages
- Cross-platform
- Adobe Flash Player
- Tamarin
- JVM
- [LLVM](Compilers.md#LLVM)
- Silverlight