GPPVM

GPPVM (General Purpose Parallel Virtual Machine) is a modern programming language and stack-based virtual machine inspired by Python and Rust, designed with strong static semantics and efficient bytecode execution.

“Compile with confidence, execute with elegance.”

✨ Overview

GPPVM combines an expressive language with a performant and extensible virtual machine.

Key Features

• 🔍 Full semantic analysis before code generation
• 💡 Type inference with implicit coercion based on archetypes
• 🧠 Robust type system supporting hierarchical archetypes
  (e.g., int → number → object)
• ⚙️ Bytecode execution on a stack-based VM
• 🧩 Plugin-based compiler architecture
• 🚀 Focus on performance, clean IR, and readable bytecode

🔧 Modular Architecture

The compiler and VM are composed of well-defined, interchangeable stages:

• Lexer (required)
• Parser (required)
• Semantic Analyzer (required)
• Intermediate Representation Generator (IR) (required)
• Bytecode Emitter (required)
• Bytecode Decompiler (optional)
• Optimizer 1 (optional)
• Optimizer 2 (optional)
• Optimizer 3 (optional)
• Virtual Machine (runtime)

Project configuration determines which plugins are active for each compilation step.

👉 See the full 0.1.0 TODO progress

📦 Getting Started

Requirements

• Rust (version ≥ 1.75)
• Cargo (comes with Rust)

Building the Compiler

Windows

./install.ps1