MoonBit compiler is available on GitHub

A friend of mine worked on https://github.com/libriscv/godot-sandbox

Which uses libriscv as the sandboxed compute target.

IIRC They tried for years to get a wasm backend to work and eventually abandoned it citing, among other reasons, something about how it was difficult to wrangle a stack machine with a register machine.

I don’t really see what benefits wasm runtimes have over something like libriscv which is very fast and maps more closely to hardware.

First I've heard of libriscv. What exactly is it? A wasm alternative that uses RISCV byte code?

Funny you mention that because mini-moonbitlang seems to be using libriscv!

https://github.com/moonbitlang/minimoonbit-public

So, maybe not the official compiler but something else is already using it?

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from the readme

Wasm and risc-v are totally different.

Wasm is an assembly like language for high performance computing in the browser

And risc-v is an arm-like instruction set for physical CPUs.

Wasm has a lot of runtimes which are basically VMs that run wasm.

Libriscv is a very small very vast VM that runs riscv assembly.

For anyone wondering, here's where that is: https://github.com/libriscv/libriscv