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Dev tools · August 4, 2014

A small virtual machine written in C

"interesting" VM in C. Let's see how this goes. Contribute to tekknolagi/carp development by creating an account on GitHub.

A small virtual machine written in C launched on August 4, 2014 with 212 votes, #45 of 2,208 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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In plain words

A virtual machine implementation written in C that serves as an experimental runtime environment for developers exploring VM design and implementation. The project is hosted on GitHub and marked as unstable and deprecated, making it primarily useful for educational purposes or as a reference for understanding how virtual machines work at a low level.

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