https://github.com/amdzy/jackvm

https://github.com/amdzy/jackvm

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/amdzy/jackvm
• Owner: amdzy
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-12-21T08:58:14.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-31T16:27:58.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-22T02:28:33.541Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Java
• Size: 58.6 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# The Jack Programming Language 

## Compiler and Virtual Machine

This project is about building a high level OOP language called jack using java.    

## Features

Jack is a Turing-complete, object-oriented language, with most of the features that any modern language has, such as branching, loops, assignments, arrays, classes, methods, arithmetic operations and more.    

## Syntax

Jack has a C-like syntax. Reserved words in Jack are:    

 

|      |      |

| :------------- | :------------- |

| this       | field       |

| static | constructor       |

| method | function |

| int | char |

| boolean | var |

| let | do |

| while | if |

| else | return |

| true | false |

| null | void |

### Compilation 

The Jack language is compiled in a two-tier process:

![Two tier compilation process. from the book *Compilers: Principles, Techniques and tools*](./compilation.png)

The code is first translated to an intermediate program (like Java's *bytecode* and C#'s *Intermediate Language*) and then a Virtual Machine Translator finishes the compilation process either by interpreting the VM code or by translating to the target's machine assembly language.  

## Project

The project consists of two parts

- [VM Translator](https://github.com/Soul-Remix/JackVM/tree/main/VMTranslator)

- Compiler (Not completed yet)

## License

[MIT](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/)