[pjmlp]

Even C has one, regardless of how tiny it happens to be, or the possibility of freestanding deployment.

In compiler speak, a runtime provides all infrastructure required by the language for program startup, shutdown, infrastructure for the standard library execution.

[amlug]

RUntime is an overused term here. The point is "no JS runtime, JIT-type"

Of course there is a (native) runtime, as there is for all languages (like you said) :)