We are humble to announce that pyvm has reached milestone
version 3.0. The URL is:
http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm-3.0/
The pyvm project explores an alternative direction in the use
of dynamic languages (based on the python model) for the
construction of a full userspace system. It might be worth
to note that it does not have an conflict of interests with
Python since this is an unstable experimental VM where new
features are constantly added, revised or removed based on
the needs of the codebase. On the contrary, it is more proof
that python-based systems are not slow and one can do everything
with them at the 1/100th of the code of traditional systems.
Currently, in 80k lines of code one can find: web browser,
font rasterizer (TTF & Type1), PDF viewer, git, PGP, SSH,
windowing environment that can run on linuxfb, audio/video
player (requires ffmpeg) and many other applications in
compact simplified implementations -- all of which are used
as feedback for testing and adding features to the VM.
Feel free to check it out
Nik Fotoulis
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