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# Welcome to Ground!

This org contains most Ground-related stuff that you'll want to find.

## What is Ground? 

Ground is a bytecode VM (however some people also insist on it being a programming language). It's fast, light, and extensible.

## Maintainers

[Max](https://chookspace.com/max): Core interpreter

[DiamondNether90](https://chookspace.com/DiamondNether90): Libraries, tooling, documentation, bug fixes, pestering Max to fix bugs

[SpookyDervish](https://chookspace.com/SpookyDervish): Libraries and Dig package manager.

## Important repositories

[Core Interpreter](https://chookspace.com/ground/ground): Core GroundVM which actually runs code. Also contains essential libraries such as fileio and request

[Dig package manager](https://chookspace.com/ground/digpkg): Package manager to easily install Ground libraries. View packages [here](https://chookspace.com/ground/-/packages). Maintained by [SpookyDervish](https://chookspace.com/SpookyDervish).

[Syntax highlighter](https://chookspace.com/ground/discord-syntax-highlighter): Highlights syntax for sending in Discord chats, helpful for sharing debug info. Maintained by [DiamondNether90](https://chookspace.com/DiamondNether90)

## Historical repositories

These repos used to be active, however are usually not used anymore. They are kept around for archival purposes.

[Old interpreter](https://chookspace.com/ground/ground-old): Old C++ based Ground interpreter. Max used to be very bad at C++ so this was a very unmaintainable version

[Gride](https://chookspace.com/ground/gride): Buggy mess of a Ground IDE. Worked in a web browser, with a Flask app providing a bridge to the Ground process.

[GroundPy](https://chookspace.com/ground/GroundPY): [SpookyDervish](https://chookspace.com/SpookyDervish)'s original attempt at compiling Ground to ASM. It does work for some things!

[Old libraries](https://chookspace.com/ground/libraries): Old external libraries for the old interpreter. The new interpreter has a different API so these are incompatible.