Vibe Coding a Rust VM: Lessons from 291 Sprints 🧠
Reflecting on the realities, pitfalls, and lessons of "Vibe Coding" a custom virtual machine and JIT compiler in Rust using AI agents.
Read Full Article →From a Wild Idea to Something Useful: The KnotenCore Journey 🚀
Reflecting on the development of KnotenCore: How a late-night "crazy idea" evolved through trial, error, and 291 sprints into a functioning runtime.
Read Full Article →Sprint 289: Cross-Node Isolate Live Migration & Context Resumption 🌐
Sprint 289 & 291 enable elastic scalability: VMs can halt mid-execution, serialize registers, transfer state over cluster networks, and resume seamlessly on remote nodes.
Read Full Article →Sprint 283: In-Memory JIT Compilation & Executable Machine Code ⚡
Learn how KnotenCore compiles AST nodes directly to raw x86_64 machine assembly in RAM (RWX pages via memmap2) and executes them at hardware speeds.
Read Full Article →Sprint 208: Asynchronous Asset Streaming & Background Queue Worker 🚀
Sprint 208 introduces non-blocking texture loading, offloading heavy file decoding to background worker threads, and deferred WGPU texture injection to eliminate frame hitches.
Read Full Article →Sprint 207: Examples Purge & Modernization 🧹
Sprint 207 purges over 80 obsolete example files, modernizes remaining codebases for full v1.3.0-alpha parser compliance, and locks down 100% CI coverage.
Read Full Article →Sprint 202: Advanced 3D Math SIMD Expansion ⚡
Sprint 202 expands OpCode::SimdExec with a structured SimdOp enum supporting vector additions, subtractions, and dot products via glam::Vec4.
Read Full Article →Sprint 201: Panic-Free Parser & CLI Hardening 🛡️
Sprint 201 migrates the compiler parser from panic-driven error propagation to a compile-time safe, Result-based model. It also purges raw unwrap() calls from the CLI to protect autonomous AI agents from crash loops.
Read Full Article →Sprint 200: SIMD Auto-Vectorization & The Evolution of Speed ⚡
Sprint 200 brings compile-time SIMD Auto-Vectorization mapping float-array math directly to single-cycle glam::Vec4 instructions, profiling diagnostics, and our legendary ASCII speed meme.
Read Full Article →v1.2.0-alpha: GPU Compute & The Iron Shield 🛡️
Sprints 187-193 introduce general-purpose WGPU Compute Pipelines, AOT Compiler Constant Folding and Dead Code Elimination, and the absolute security hardening of the Iron Shield Sandbox.
Read Full Article →The Core Purge & The Network Bridge 🌐
Sprints 181-186 mark a profound shift. We bridged the gap to the external web via HTTP Telemetry while simultaneously purging over 1,500 lines of dead legacy Voxel code.
Read Full Article →The Great Registry Refactoring 🛡️
Sprints 184-185 systematically dismantled a 1,600-line monolith into highly focused, secure FFI modules. Welcome to the era of absolute architectural encapsulation.
Read Full Article →v1.0.48: The Marketplace Launch — VS Code Extension, LSP & GPGPU
KnotenCore goes global. The VS Code Extension is live, the native LSP server is active, and GPGPU Compute Shaders are verified across all 10 engine layers.
Read the full story →Sprint 134: The Audit Rectification (Reality Check)
Correcting discrepancies: From binary size transparency to hardened FFI security and error format synchronization.
Read the full story →From C64 to Rust Compiler – In Four Weeks.
I haven't written a single line of code myself. And yet, a working AOT compiler now exists. This is the story behind KnotenCore.
Read the full story →The Vision Behind KnotenCore: An Uncompromising, Memory-Safe Virtual Machine
Bridging the gap between lightweight scripts and native performance: An AOT stack machine for uncompromising safety.
Read Full Article →Native Performance: Interactive Real-Time Applications Without Web Overhead
Building tools and games without Electron or massive engines: Eliminating GC pauses in the high-performance event loop.
Read Full Article →Zero-Trust Data Processing: Secure Scripting Inside the KnotenCore Sandbox
Automated pipelines without data leaks. Why every KnotenCore script must pass through a strict native permission router.
Read Full Article →Enterprise-Ready: Scalable Architecture and the KnotenCore Standard Library
End spaghetti code: The native AOT module system links dependencies blitz-fast at compile-time with zero runtime overhead.
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