What is “runtime”?

Question

I have heard about things like \"C Runtime\", \"Visual C++ 2008 Runtime\", \".NET Common Language Runtime\", etc.

• What is \"runtime\" exactly?

Answer 1

Runtime basically means when program interacts with the hardware and operating system of a machine. C does not have it's own runtime but instead, it requests runtime from an operating system (which is basically a part of ram) to execute itself.