RiceVM – A Dis virtual machine and Limbo compiler in Rust

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi, I've made a Dis virtual machine and Limbo programming language compiler (called RiceVM) in Rust. It can run Dis bytecode (for example, Inferno OS applications), compile Limbo programs, and includes a fairly complete runtime with garbage collection, concurrency features, and many of the standard modules from…

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