With the current trend on mobiles to have all three major platforms in some form of bytecode (bitcode, MSIL, DEX), JITed (Dalvik), AOT compiled installation time (ART), linked at installation time (WP8&#x2F;MDIL), AOT compiled at the store (bitcode, .NET Native), they are looking like mainframes.<p>Using processor neutral binary formats was always a thing with them.