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Show HN: First embeddable script language/VM in C i made (github.com)
8 points by rlw 3598 days ago
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gernest 3597 days ago
I went though examples and I am impressed, it seems to be good.

I have some questions though, since I'm also interested to build a toy virtual machine for the sake of knowledge.

Which resources did you use?

How long did it take for you to build this? As I can't grok much based on the commit history.

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rlw 3597 days ago
The base I started on some weeks/months ago, and took me around 1-2 weeks to build most of it and after that I lost some interest/motivation so I stopped for a few weeks.

As for resources first I made a interpreter which is also on my github just out of head without googling anything to see how far I could come with the knowledge I had, then after that for some feature I wanted to add a interpreter wasn't the best fit and a VM would be better, so I decided to rewrite it and change the interpreter to a compiler of sorts and write a VM which I searched for articles on VM/Compilers and stuff.

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