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With all those limitations I wonder why they didn’t just use something like C… I guess the portability of bytecode? A modern version might use WebAssembly inst

With all those limitations I wonder why they didn’t just use something like C… I guess the portability of bytecode? A modern version might use WebAssembly instead which feels more suited as it’s much lower level (at least without the modern GC extensions)

monocasa 10mo ago
It does still have object level memory safety, so it has that going for it still more than C or even a wasm based VM would.