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by akeefer 6015 days ago
Compiling our JVM language (Gosu) down to bytecode. It's slow going; the bytecode side isn't hard, but the language has been evolving for 7 years or so and has all sorts of obscure edge cases, as well as some looseness in the semantics that has to be tightened up in bytecode, so getting every little detail right so all the existing code still runs 100% correctly is difficult. We're still hoping for an initial open source release some time between probably June and September.