>The creator of UXN is a friend of mine and we chat semi-regularly about our VMs.
Does the discussion happen in a public place? If yes I'd be extremely happy to join in since I also got started with making my own system around a month ago, and it feels a bit lonely going on such an endeavor at times.
It's extremely early and I haven't really shared it anywhere yet, but I feel there is already the possibilty to play around with the custom editor I made, try to make little graphical programs etc.. If you manage to build it that is (I develop mostly on OpenBSD and also try to make it build under Ubuntu with gcc sometimes).
The source is hosted here for now: https://git.blazebone.com/pochi/
The README (in the about tab) should give a rough explanation of what it is, I also have a bit of documentation already.
>Another difference is that IMO, UVM is more approachable.
Very interesting choice, I did away with such assumptions and ran the other way, my system might feel quite alien/esoteric since I went for something that draws a lot of inspiration from Chuck Moore's work with ColorForth as well as his F18 chip.