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Multi-Language Platform for Dynamic Programming Languages
https://github.com/zetavm/zetavm
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Multi-Language Platform for Dynamic Programming Languages
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/zetavm/zetavm
- Owner: zetavm
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2017-04-25T06:26:09.000Z (about 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-07-19T02:01:32.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-01-26T16:36:25.881Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: interpreter, jit, jit-compiler, language, vm
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://pointersgonewild.com/category/zeta/
- Size: 1.53 MB
- Stars: 624
- Watchers: 46
- Forks: 38
- Open Issues: 8
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: docs/contributing.md
- License: LICENSE
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- awesome-compilers - ZetaVM - Multi-Language Platform for Dynamic Programming Languages. (Tools and Frameworks / Language Agnostic)
- awesome-compilers - ZetaVM - Multi-Language Platform for Dynamic Programming Languages. (Tools and Frameworks / Language Agnostic)
README
# ZetaVM
[](https://travis-ci.org/zetavm/zetavm) [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/maximecb/zetavm) [](https://gitter.im/zeta-vm-org/Lobby)
**Please note that ZetaVM is currently at the early prototype stage. As such,
it is incomplete and breaking changes may happen often.**
## Requirements:
- GNU Make
- GCC 5.4+ (Linux) or clang (OSX), or cygwin (Windows)
- Optional: autoconf and pkg-config, if needing to edit the configure file
- Optional: sdl2, if wanting to use audio and graphics capabilities
- Optional: Python 2 is needed to run the benchmark.py script
## Installation
```
# Clone this repository
$ git clone [email protected]:maximecb/zetavm.git
# Run the configure script and compile zetavm
# Note: run configure with `--with-sdl2` to build audio and graphics support
$ cd zetavm
$ ./configure
$ make -j4
# Optionally run tests to check that everything works properly
$ make test
```
## Basic Usage
```
# To run programs, pass the path to a source file to zeta, for example:
$ ./zeta benchmarks/fib.pls -- 29
# To start up the Plush REPL (interactive shell),
# you can run the Plush language package as a program:
$ ./zeta lang/plush/0
```
## About ZetaVM
ZetaVM is a Virtual machine and JIT compiler for dynamic programming languages.
It implements a basic core runtime environment on top of which programming
dynamic languages can be implemented with relatively little effort.
Features of the VM include:
- Built-in support for dynamic typing
- Garbage collection
- JIT compilation
- Dynamically growable objects (JS-like)
- Dynamically-typed arrays (JS/Python-like)
- Integer and floating-point arithmetic
- Immutable UTF-8 strings
- Text-based [code and data storage format](/tests/vm/ex_image.zim) (JSON-like)
- First-class stack-based bytecode (code is data)
- Built-in graphical and audio libraries
- Coming soon: built-in package manager
Zeta image files (.zim) are JSON-like, human-readable text files containing
objects, data and bytecodes to be executed by ZetaVM.
They are intended to serve as a compilation target, and may contain
executable programs, or libraries/packages.
## More Information
A recording of a [talk about ZetaVM](https://eventil.com/presentations/5dszyA) given at PolyConf 2017 is available.
For more information, see the documentation in the [docs](docs) directory:
- [Overview and Roadmap](docs/roadmap.md)
- [Design and Guiding Principles of ZetaVM](docs/design.md)
- [Packages included with ZetaVM](docs/packages.md)
- [Plush Language Guide](docs/plush_guide.md)
- [Plush Bootstrap Process](docs/bootstrap.md)
- [Execution Model and Semantics](docs/exec_model.md)
- [Contributing to ZetaVM](docs/contributing.md)
- [Creating your own Language with ZetaVM](docs/new_language.md)
There are also a few blog post about [Zeta](https://pointersgonewild.com/category/zeta/) and its design.
For additional questions and clarifications, [open a GitHub issue](https://github.com/maximecb/zetavm/issues) and tag it as a question, or join the [ZetaVM Gitter chat](https://gitter.im/zeta-vm-org/Lobby).