Was re-reading, the _Story of Mel_ the Real Programmer (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html) and saw the line —
“If a program can't rewrite its own code”,
he (mel) asked, “what good is it?”
And was reminded of the optization critique of _uxn_. @neauoire can you share a reference to that argument against code that can do self-alteration and the technical description a friend of yours gave?
@furiousgreencloud ah yes, so I'm not sure I can explain it clearly, but from what I understand, if uxn wasn't self-modifying, it could be translated to llvm ir, which is a spec that maps to modern processors. Maybe @wim_v12e can help explain this better.
@neauoire @furiousgreencloud In short, it is not impossible but self-modifying code will always be slower because it needs JIT compilation.
I wrote a longer answer but with the character limit it would be a 4-post thread, let me know if you are interested.
@furiousgreencloud @wim_v12e Oh I think you're mixing up the conversation with the wasm mailing list and uxn.
Uxn can run in the browser: https://metasyn.github.io/learn-uxn/