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# runestick
runestick, a simple stack-based virtual machine.
### Contributing
If you want to help out, there's a number of optimization tasks available in
[Future Optimizations][future-optimizations].
Create an issue about the optimization you want to work on and communicate that
you are working on it.
### Features of runestick
* [Clean Rust FFI][rust-ffi].
* Stack-based C FFI like with Lua (TBD).
* Stack frames, allowing for isolation across function calls.
* A rust-like reference language called *Rune*.
### Rune Scripts
runestick comes with a simple scripting language called *Rune*.
You can run example scripts through rune-cli:
```text
cargo run -- ./scripts/hello_world.rn
```
If you want to see diagnostics of your unit, you can do:
```text
cargo run -- ./scripts/hello_world.rn --dump-unit --trace
```
[rust-ffi]: https://github.com/rune-rs/rune/blob/master/crates/runestick-http/src/lib.rs
[future-optimizations]: https://github.com/rune-rs/rune/blob/master/FUTURE_OPTIMIZATIONS.md