There are a few reasons: * It opens the possibility of having universal binaries regardless of the host operating system. That means running Nginx, Python, ffm

There are a few reasons: * It opens the possibility of having universal binaries regardless of the host operating system. That means running Nginx, Python, ffmpeg with just one binary (rather than one for each architecture) * It could mean an easier interaction between languages (similar to GraalVM is doing Truffle) - without any recompilation