> I realize I've sort of just re-invented Javascript. Or one of several bytecodes that get JIT or AOT compiled. WASM in particular has my interest these days,

> I realize I've sort of just re-invented Javascript. Or one of several bytecodes that get JIT or AOT compiled. WASM in particular has my interest these days, thanks to native browser support and being relatively lean and more friendly towards "native" code, whereas JVM and CLR are fairly heavyweight, and their bytecodes assume you're going to be using a garbage collector (something that e.g. wasmtime manages to avoid.) Non-web use cases of WASM in practice seem more focused on isolation, sandboxing, and security rather than architecture independence - stuff like "edge computing" - and I haven't read about anyone using it for AOT compilation. But perhaps it has some potential there too?