From 80c277773a1e73267832641574654361b85e6028 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Vertes Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:54:13 +0200 Subject: first commit --- readme.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 readme.md (limited to 'readme.md') diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f58f6d --- /dev/null +++ b/readme.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# parscan + +Parscan is an experimental project to test a single parser to multiple +languages and virtual machines. + +The first language definition is a subset of Go, enough to implement +simple benchmarks, as fibonacci numbers. + +The first VM is a stack machine, operated by walking directly the AST. + +The next step is to add a byte-code based VM and the corresponding byte code +generator. + +Further steps is to get closer to full Go spec and / or introduce new +languages definitions and new VM implementations. + +Note: this is highly experimental and unstable. -- cgit v1.2.3