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Dev tools · June 23, 2020

Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk

a toy jvm in awk. Contribute to rethab/awk-jvm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Awk-JVM – A toy JVM in Awk launched on June 23, 2020 with 180 votes, #156 of 4,317 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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Awk-JVM is a Java Virtual Machine implementation written in Awk, the text processing language. It is designed as an educational and experimental project rather than a practical tool. The project demonstrates how JVM concepts can be implemented in an unconventional language, making it suitable for developers interested in language internals, JVM architecture, or creative programming challenges. It serves as a toy implementation highlighting the flexibility of Awk.

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