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by redindian75 3809 days ago
Looks like it was written from scratch [1] -

Quote: "I generally don’t like to reinvent the wheel so I tried to look at the currently available open source languages in search for a valid candidate. Some languages had a very nice virtual machine implementation but on top of a crappy syntax, some other languages had a good syntax but without an efficient virtual machine… some others were so huge and intricate that I refused to be involved in such a mess.

Requirements were clear… a thin and very efficient virtual machine with no more that 5000/6000 lines of code. I wasn’t able to find anything that could completely satisfy our needs so this time I decided to reinvent the wheel and project Gravity started."

[1] http://marcobambini.com/writing-a-programming-language-and-a...