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.
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