re language<p>Ahh. I believe it was VisualWorks mentioned when I last looked at it. The impression I had from that description was that it was the ultimate, component language. They said you don&#x27;t have a main function and directives like most languages. You really just have a pile of objects that you glue together with the glue being the main application. And that this was highly integrated into the IDE&#x27;s to make that easy to manage.<p>Was that the experience you had?<p>re VM primitives in assembly<p>I&#x27;m actually fine with that. I&#x27;m not like other people that think language X&#x27;s runtime must always be written in X. Maybe a version of that for testing and reference implementation. People can understand it. Yet, I&#x27;ll throw the best ASM coder I can at a VM or even its critical paths if I have to get highest performance that way. Can&#x27;t let C++ win so easily over the dynamic languages. ;)