Should it just be called JASM?

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So much better now

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Do we have 3 assemblies now?

Actual assembly in mainstream use:
x86
arm
risc v

mainstream byte code:
jvm
.net (I think)
wasm

fake assembly people may write:
llvm
wasm

wat (web assembly text) is actually written is S-expressions, like lisp but without code as data.

Edit: formatting

.NET thing is called IL

The runtime is even called "common language runtime" (clr), as it is intended to support many different languages, which the jvm never was.

I'm making my own, because all mainstream options are bloated for my usecase...

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Don't give Java the credit of inventing bytecode, it's a much cooler concept than that

Please AppleSoft BASIC was doing bytecode before Java was a gleam in a programmers eye.