virtual-machine

Tiny-Lua-Compiler is an educational, self-hosting Lua 5.1 compiler and VM written in pure Lua, designed to be small enough to study but complete enough to handle real language features.

This blog post responds to the claim that WebAssembly is not a pure stack machine by discussing its design with locals and comparing it to Forth, arguing that it still fits the definition of a stack machine and that its register-like locals improve readability and performance.

A technical guide on using microvm.nix on NixOS to create ephemeral VMs for safely running coding agents without access to personal files.