Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C

Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C by zencoder on Monday August 04, 2014 @06:32AM (#8131048)

>The goal is to try and build a small (and decently reliable) VM from the ground up, learning more and more C as I go.

The author explicitly mentions, he is in the process of learning C while he's building something using it.

This is interesting because the folks at [osdev.org](http://wiki.osdev.org) keep stressing that you must be a god-level expert in C, before you even think of getting into systems programming.

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Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C by TheSoftwareGuy on Monday August 04, 2014 @09:51AM (#8131691)

I think the guys at osdev mean you need to be good at C before doing systems programming at any form of a professional level. If you don't intend for your code to actually do anything (I mean this is just a side project or something, not for somebody to use in production) than you can really do whatever you want.

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Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C by tekknolagi on Monday August 04, 2014 @12:07PM (#8132422)

Definitely a side project.

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Re:Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C by wtetzner on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @08:14AM (#8136480)

I don't know about other people, but there's no way I'd be able to become an expert in a language without building things with it.

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