acook / blacklight

blacklight is a programming language which is concurrent, stack-based, and concatenative (BLPL)

blacklight is a virtual machine for implementing highly concurrent languages (BLVM)

blacklight is a data interchange format for communicating between processes and across networks (BLBC)

Features

blacklight (BLVM) is awesome, here's a few reasons why:

• easy to use builtin parallelism through native concurrency primatives
• threadsafe communication between concurrency units
• rich datatype primitives
• an easy to use homoiconic Forth-like assembly language (BLPL)
• runtime bytecode manipulation and generation
• UTF-8 native datatypes
• multi-architecture and cross-platform (currently: x86_64, ARM, macos, linux, windows)
• (in progress) highly optimized vector operations on supported CPUs
• (in progress) simple FFI to Rust and C
• (planned) security contexts and permissions

Documentation

• The blacklight Wiki has documentation and links (work in progress).
• The examples directory contains several demonstration scripts to get you started.

BLPOC

The current implementation of blacklight is a proof-of-concept. It's functional but intended primarily for proving out features, strategies, and specifications. Once The ABI is stable it will be reimplemented with optimization and compatibility in mind against a full test suite. As is, there is very little about blacklight that isn't subject to change to better reflect the results of research and experimentation.