ALAlexeyBrin·Aug 10, 2019Submission
A simple virtual machine – compiler and interpreter – written in Golang
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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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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesIt is always nice to see projects like this. Creating a simple interpreter isn't a hard job, but it's still pretty educational.
One thing that you'll benefit from is documenting the instruction-set, and usage a little more clearly. For example my own toy language was written in C here:
https://github.com/skx/simple.vm
And I think I did a good job of showing how to use the instructions. Then for fun I rewrote it in golang https://github.com/skx/go.vm which showed some interesting differences.
Your own tastes might differ, but I'd think after the interpreter a compiler/decompiler would be good next steps. Makes it a lot easier to write code/programs in your assembly!
In Basic Virtual Machine Implementation in C99