https://github.com/acook/blacklight

a stack-based concatenative virtual machine for implementing highly concurrent languages
https://github.com/acook/blacklight

bytecode concatenative concurrent-programming programming-language stack-machine virtual-machine

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a stack-based concatenative virtual machine for implementing highly concurrent languages

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/acook/blacklight
• Owner: acook
• Created: 2015-10-25T21:54:37.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: bianca.go
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-10T12:50:16.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-19T00:33:00.346Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: bytecode, concatenative, concurrent-programming, programming-language, stack-machine, virtual-machine
• Language: Go
• Homepage: http://blog.anthonymcook.com/blacklight/
• Size: 662 KB
• Stars: 45
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.markdown

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> `blacklight` is a *programming language* which is concurrent, stack-based, and concatenative  (BLPL)

> `blacklight` is a **virtual machine** for implementing highly concurrent languages (BLVM)

> `blacklight` is a *data interchange* format for communicating between processes and across networks (BLBC)

Features

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blacklight (BLVM) is awesome, here's a few reasons why:

- easy to use builtin parallelism through native concurrency primatives

- threadsafe communication between concurrency units

- rich datatype primitives

- an easy to use homoiconic Forth-like assembly language (BLPL)

- runtime bytecode manipulation and generation

- UTF-8 native datatypes

- multi-architecture and cross-platform (currently: x86_64, ARM, macos, linux, windows)

- (in progress) highly optimized vector operations on supported CPUs

- (planned) security contexts and permissions

Documentation

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- The [blacklight Wiki](https://github.com/acook/blacklight/wiki) has documentation and links (work in progress).

- The [examples directory](https://github.com/acook/blacklight/tree/master/examples) contains several demonstration scripts to get you started.

BLPOC

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The current implementation of `blacklight` is a proof-of-concept. It's functional but intended primarily for proving out features, strategies, and specifications. Once The ABI is stable it will be reimplemented with optimization and compatibility in mind against a full test suite. As is, there is very little about `blacklight` that isn't subject to change to better reflect the results of research and experimentation.