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WINE does run wiindows apps natively on linux.
That's not what natively means
You know what WINE stands for?
You know that running through a compatibility layer isn't native whether you call it an emulator or not?
It runs natively. Compatibility layer or not.
The software run inside of wine makes windows system calls, which wine translates into *nix system calls. That's not what native means. If that software was native it wouldn't need wine.
That's what libraries do. glibc converts application calls to Linux syscalls. libgl converts application calls to driver calls.
It depends on where you draw the line at "native". Unless you're writing assembly you're using some sort of 'compatibility layer'.