@p @nigger @Suiseiseki @bonkers this is not a bytecode VM, such resources are still interesting but this is a ast walking VM, with fundamental semantics identical to C's so that it'll be trivial to transpile to C and JIT hot loops into machine code that way, even without giving JIT explicit VM support beyond FFI.
this is the only reason I'd bother as "low level lisp with C constructs as primitives" doesn't seem to be a thing yet. well, except for carp but that sounds like it replaced GC herpes with mandatory ownership and borrow checking turbo-AIDS, when my original purpose was just an ergonomic C wrapper