go.vm VS well

You might find something interesting if you were to look at virtual-machines - many are used for implementing scripting-languages, so while you'd not be writing assembly-code, you'd be writing "bytecode" programs.

You could write bytecode for Lua, or bytecode for Python for example.

I had a fun few weeks writing a simple virtual-machine, and a "compiler" which turns a simple assembly-language-like input into bytecodes which are then interpreted:

https://github.com/skx/go.vm/

Other examples, along with lua/python which were already mentioned, might include "Writing a compiler in go" this turns a scripting-language into a set of opcodes which a VM executes:

* https://compilerbook.com/

I want to make a mention of tristan wellman's project called well: 'https://github.com/wellang/well', which aims to be a high level modern assembler, in case anyone knows about the assembly and wants to give support, we are trying to make an 'elf' so that it has linking support for gcc and/or any tool that handles elf compatibility with the '.o'

link: https://github.com/wellang/well

Where's the new one then? https://github.com/wellang/well/blob/main/src/interp.cpp Looks like it's just converting to C++ still.

It appears that the language uses "return" as a synonym for the SYSCALL x86_64 instruction: https://github.com/wellang/well/blob/main/src/syscall_interp...

The example code is equivalent to:

    write(1, "hello world!", 12);