This is not yet another Meta-Language

TinyaML is a virtual machine, a compiler, and a compiler-compiler, powered by the abstract parser tinyap.

It is entirely written in C, endian-safe, and allows easy bindings of new C APIs into the virtual machine.

The VM executes wordcode with a virtual threading model and features a garbage collector.

TinyaML allows the user to compile and run assembly code, or plug new grammars for higher-level languages into the parser and implement the methods to compile their ASTs.

A manual and documentation are in progress at http://beublo23.free.fr/doxygen/tinyaml/.

Version 0.4 features many improvements including :

• now compiles and runs in 64-bit archs
• language layers reorganized (currently script over procedural asm over symbolic asm over meta asm over asm)
• bug fixes everywhere (which just basically means that everything works as expected),
• script language improvements :
• variadic argument lists in functions,
• packing and unpacking arrays from/onto stack,
• thread handling,
• local and global symbols shared between asm and script layers (one can use script symbols when writing inline asm or use asm globals in script blocs),
• and more...
• file and tcp/udp socket I/O extension (yeah it's a basic requirement, but having the core features working well was a priority, wasn't it ?)
• And a full-fledged tutorial covering all the aspects of tinyaml, from the basics of the core assembly language syntax to the writing of higher-level language layers and of library extensions !

Version 0.5 is on its way. It will enable object-oriented programming at assembly level (and above), and hopefully quite a few fluffy OO features.

Contact me at damien dot leroux at gmail dot com for feedback, suggestions, requests or to help improving the code.

Tinyaml now has its own IRC channel at freenode. Come and say hi, ask questions, rant and/or troll on #tinyaml !