I love this guy. His notions of software development are fascinating. He's pondering cross platform software today:

In the example above, we could compile to bytecode for example, but then we need a VM (and I don't want to get into 40 year old technology) and more importantly, it doesn't take advantage of vector processing if it is available.

Can you say "premature optimization"? Apparently, he can't. So we follow his train of thought and end up down here:

Anyone see a way out of this? If not, I'll just use some form of intermediate code.

Meaning, a VM or interpreter. I wonder if he'll come up with a really cool new name to keep that fact from himself...