The problem is there are only two candidates to choose from.

Im with you on this one. Corporations are never your friend no matter how they try to frame it.

Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application’s source code will be open to developers worldwide.

The date is given on the page, which hasn’t lapsed yet.

Asm is compiled too.

Gotta bust out the hex editor.

C# “compiles” to intermediary bytecode, then ran in a vm. Same as Java. I’d say that’s no better than a “scripting” language with a JIT.