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by circuit10 179 days ago
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)

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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.