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A low-level virtual machine for mobile code

6 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2017-04-12 · latest 2023-08-07

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  1. There was a wasm predecessor (by, well, me) with a bit more of the Forth flavor: https://github.com/darius/idel From >20 years ago and my main regret is a failure to carry it through to be more than a demo.
    comment by abecedarius · 2023-08-07 · in My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)
  2. …been following. At the time it was first announced I used some of the ideas in one of my projects ( https://github.com/darius/idel/blob/master/src/opcodes.awk ) but unfortunately didn't develop it further.
  3. …of the object-capability ferment around E and EROS was Darius Bacon's Idel secure virtual machine: https://github.com/darius/idel Though no other software is as influential as JS, other currently influential ocap systems include Genode,…
  4. At https://github.com/darius/idel is a Wasm-like VM I made in the early 2000s with a Forth-like source syntax and static stack effects. (Tail-call optimization too.) I regret making it a little too simple and then abandoning it -- it…
    comment by abecedarius · 2019-11-22 · in Multi-Value All the Wasm
  5. …FWIW, I used this idea (extended basic blocks are functions with m arguments and n results) in https://github.com/darius/idel with a Forth-like syntax back in 2001.
    comment by abecedarius · 2019-01-13 · in SSA is Functional Programming (1998) [pdf]
  6. You might find a few useful ideas in my abandoned project from 15 years ago: https://github.com/darius/idel It was inspired in part by just those agoric papers and meant to grow into supporting that kind of market. It was also designed to…
    comment by abecedarius · 2017-04-12 · in Sandboxing Landscape