There was a patch for coroutines on the JVM some time ago. Unfortunatly it did not make it into the platform. No reason why it could not be added to the JVM.
SubstrateVM solves the embeddability part.
SubstrateVM solves the embeddability part.
For context we use to run VM + tuneable data + game logic code in a 400kb block allocated to Lua on the PSP. I'd love to hear how SubstrateVM compares. Lua has a really rich history of being embedding in some pretty small targets.
Some of this is just simply a design trade-off. E.g., in JRuby+Truffle, we've implemented much of the core library in Ruby. This has allowed us to achieve a high level of language compatibility in a fairly short period of time -- implementing 3,000 core library methods in Java would be quite the undertaking. As a consequence, the static binary must include those full Ruby sources (compressed, but they're not in an optimized bytecode format).
Having said that, if we wanted to optimize for size over a restricted subset of the language (think mruby), that would be straightforward to do.