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Observed arrival · 2026-09-29

Asoma: programs that travel between machines

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Asoma is a small virtual machine and programming language designed to let programs run across different kinds of machines and move between them.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-29 issue.
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Developers working across browsers, Max, Python, and microcontrollers
Worth noticing
Programs are OSC message bundles, and the machine's memory is also represented as a bundle that can travel with a running program.

Field notes

The page describes browser examples as live machines compiled to WebAssembly, where users edit a program and run it against a local OSC server. Its host list includes a command-line prompt with files and UDP, Max externals, a browser path using WebAudio and WebSocket, Arduino-core firmware for ESP32 and Photon 2, and a Python module. The homepage links language, machine, host, embedding, reference, and example material.

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