Enor

Enor is a small, low-level programming language.
It's designed to be explicit, simple, and easy to reason about — and it runs on its own virtual machine called Cradle.

⚠️ Enor is still in development. Things will change as the language matures.

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Cradle

Cradle is the virtual machine that executes Enor programs.
It defines the runtime environment, handles bytecode execution, and even comes with a built-in assembler for turning Enor source into bytecode. (.ens to .enb)

You can think of it as the backbone of Enor: without Cradle, the language doesn’t do much.

Using Cradle

Clone the repository and build the VM using make:

make

This produces the Cradle executable inside the build/ folder.

You can then run an ens program in Cradle/programs like this:

make asm PROGRM=<program_name>

For development and testing, there’s also:

make test

This runs the included test programs in Cradle/tests to verify the VM is behaving as expected.

to clean builds:

make clean

This remove the files in Cradle/tests/bin and Cradle/builds

For detailed technical documentation on Cradle, including its instruction set, execution model, bytecode format, and assembler, see the Cradle Overview

Status

• Enor language - basic syntax in place, but still under development
• Cradle VM - mostly functional, can execute core bytecode, has built-in assembler
• Compiler - still in progress
• Advanced features - optimizations, extended instructions, and error handling are being worked on

The VM and language are under active development and may change frequently.