Added todo to rewrite assembler in a different language

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@@ -33,6 +33,20 @@ A call should look something like this:
   $name 1 2 3
 #+end_src
 and those tokens will be substituted literally in the macro body.
+* TODO Write assembler in a different language :ASM:
+While the runtime and base library needs to deal with only
+binary, the assembler has to deal with string inputs and a larger
+variety of bugs.  As the base library is written in C, and is all that
+is necessary to write a program that targets the virtual machine, we
+could realistically use another language to write the assembler in via
+FFI with minimal pain.
+
+Languages in the competition:
++ C++
++ Rust
++ Python
+* TODO Introduce error handling in base library :LIB:
+There is a large variety of TODOs about errors
 * TODO Standard library :ASM:VM:
 I should start considering this and how a user may use it.  Should it
 be an option in the VM and/or assembler binaries (i.e. a flag) or