It’d be interesting to see performance comparison between native code and this bytecode. Is it x10 similar to Python? Better/worse?

Wow, this is really interesting.
I bought some Pico 2040s when they first came out, but all the tooling seemed to be raspberry pi based.
I might have to check this out. Certainly revisit my 2040s and see if there are some good (not raspberry pi based) tutorials out there