@neauoire The Pico-8 comparison always feel like people conflating Uxn with Varvara. A "more accurate" comparison would be Uxn and the Lua VM that Pico-8 embeds.

However, the LVM isn't intended to be targeted directly and it's opcodes are an internal implementation detail that regularly breaks between versions. On the other hand, Uxn is a VM focused on long term stability, reimplantation, and portability.

(And, the same thing can be extended to Varvara and the Pico-8. Additionally, the Pico-8 is a whole IDE whereas Varvara is just the platform specification.)

I'm just kinda rambling to myself, but I get frustrated cause nobody actually compares the Pico-8 and the LVM to Varvara and Uxn. They just superficially (and often dismissively) state a vague similarity at a first glance.