The low overhead virtual embedded machine.

The goal is, to write a virtual machine to be used in restricted embedded systems (on microcontrollers). Aimed features are:

• Small compiled program size of VM itself.
• Small size of compiled programs to run on VM.
• Small memory footprint during execution.
• Robust runtime.
• Efficient bit/byte manipulation in programs.

I am developing lovem publicly on GitHub. The journey is documented on https://kratenko.github.io/lovem. I try to explain how a virtual stack machine works and also explain some Rust on the way.

The process slows down development of the VM quite a lot. But I like the pace it is currently taking.

Entries link to GitHub releases/tags, so that you can easily follow the code, if you clone the repository locally.

I have not decided, yet. I will be aiming for something permissive, so you can use it in commercial products and for your privat education. That means the program code and such. The journal entries (aka dev blog posts) are owned by their authors (that would be me), with all implications you get for published texts. That means, you can quote them.

Direct participation is difficult, at this stage, as I develop a plan as I go along, that can be followed in the blog. I will see issues and pull requests, I guess, but I don't know how I will handle them for now. If you read the journey entries (blog posts), there is the possibility to add comments and ask questions. You can also use GitHub discussions. Actually, the comments on the journal also live in discussions.