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Do you have an easy way to set up Nile and get it running? And did you run Frank too?

No I ran it mainly from from Bret Victors viz directory. Did not run Frank. Would be interesting to build a Nile runtime in go or elixir (maps well to [processes), with a simple compiler in Ocaml.

By viz directory did you mean https://github.com/damelang/nile/tree/master/viz/NileViewer

And yeah, it'd interesting to build one. Is there enough info on it to build such compiler though? That NileVM.js is helpful. I've posted a list of resources in another comment below, but maybe I've missed a few

The Nile compilers directory has a bunch of stuff in JavaScript, Smalltalk as well as in Maru (which is in itself pretty interesting, and is a self hosted lisp)

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