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go.vm
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go.vm

A simple virtual machine - compiler & interpreter - written in golang

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What it is

A simple virtual machine - compiler & interpreter - written in golang

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 11:34:28 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-07-02 14:55:37 UTC to 2022-05-08 16:15:10 UTC.

01232018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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stevekemp·Nov 23, 2018
http://emulator101.com/ is a good resource, as is https://www.reddit.com/r/emudev/. Or you can just cheat, design a "toy" instruction set, and write something to process it. A couple of years ago I did that, in C/Perl: * https://github.com/skx/simple.vm Later I rewrote the interpreter/emulator in go: * https://github.com/skx/go.vm The downside with my approach here is that I ignored graphcs, sound, & I/O. These days I'd recommend you write an emulator for the Chip-8 system..
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