In my opinion the core on which poke was made is actually much more interesting than the tool as such. Poke is actually not only an editor, it's a domain speci

In my opinion the core on which poke was made is actually much more interesting than the tool as such. Poke is actually not only an editor, it's a domain specific language. This language is built on top of something called GNU Jitter. https://www.gnu.org/software/jitter/ https://www.gnu.org/software/jitter/ Jitter is a very interesting project! It's a kind of generic interpreter that is—as the name suggests—almost a JIT compiler. It's something more or less "in between". Technically it's more an interpreter + VM. But it uses all kinds of (I think novel) tricks to remove the overhead of interpretation, which makes the code at runtime almost look like what a JIT compiler would have produced. Some more internal info than on the GNU page on how this works can be found in the following slides: http://ageinghacker.net/talks/jitter-slides--saiu--ghm2017--2017-08-25.pdf http://ageinghacker.net/talks/jitter-slides--saiu--ghm2017--...