The Lycus Foundation
Welcome to the Lycus Foundation. We are a non-profit organization centered around the development and maintenance of open source developer tools such as compilers, virtual machines, analysis tools, and programming language specifications.
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About What the foundation is and what it's doing.
The Lycus Foundation was created in August of 2011. The idea was to have a single organization to manage a number of projects relating to developer tooling (originally a virtual machine project and a programming language specification and its compiler implementation). This umbrella organization would take care of build server and service management, monetary matters, project coordination, release engineering, etc.
Today, the foundation hosts several supporting library projects, virtual machine projects, and compiler projects. In addition, it provides porting machines for various architectures and operating systems, a large and comprehensive build server fleet, release packaging, etc
The foundation is completely open and community-oriented. We encourage everyone to take part in discussions on the IRC channels, mailing lists, and various forums. Further, all of the source code of the foundation's projects is on GitHub where anyone can fork and contribute by sending patches via pull requests.
Documentation on our development processes can be found on our wiki on GitHub.
Projects Projects that we created or are contributing to.
Flect (Docs, API)
Flect is a functional systems programming language. It pragmatically combines features such as algebraic data types, pattern matching, first-class function values, traits, generics, macros, and high type safety with (optional) low-level control over memory, direct interfacing to C and C++, bare metal compilation support, and other similar features.
ParaVM (Docs)
ParaVM is a virtual machine written specifically for the Epiphany processor architecture. It executes code in an isolated fashion, similar to Erlang, on the accelerator cores available in the system it is used on. It is mainly intended to be used on the Parallella board made by Adapteva, and other similar boards.
MCI (Docs, API)
The MCI (Managed Compiler Infrastructure) is a modern and intuitive compiler infrastructure written in the D programming language. It provides a simple, extensible API specialized for modern-day programming language designs. It is primarily intended for so-called "managed" languages, which usually run in a virtual machine and typically use a garbage collector for memory management.
ExoCore (Docs)
ExoCore is an operating system kernel written in Clang-flavored C11. It is a so-called exokernel; it only provides the bare minimum of abstraction around the hardware (such as memory management, I/O operations, scheduling, etc). It is primarily intended to be a reference project for learning purposes.
DAREPL
DAREPL (D Architecture REPL) is an interactive REPL for CPU architectures. It lets you type instructions into a prompt and view the resulting mutations to machine state. It's generally meant as a development aid for compiler writers and reverse engineers.
Publications Published works relating to projects we work on.
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