errant/tacit

Tacit
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Tacit is:

* VM: A bytecode VM, with basic stack, memory management and interpreter
* Tac: A toy language similar in style to Assembly that comes with a lexer and compiler

Implementing a VM (and indeed a language) in PHP is silly, it's slow and limited. However, Tacit might have a purpose; for example as an educational tool.

Tacit was built with the aim of being a safe, sandboxed scripting VM for a PHP-based game. Yes, a ridiculous notion but one that works surprisingly well for simple applications.

Get Started
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- Clone the Repository
- Browse the examples folder
- Try an example:
```
bin/tacit examples/simple.tac
```

Future
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The aim is for Tacit to expand to be more featureful, on the list is:

* Adding registers to the VM
* Expanding the Tac language with more complex commands
* The addition of a higher-level scripting language (& compiler) similar to Ruby/Python

More
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* [Documentation](https://github.com/errant/tacit/wiki)