# Spider Programming Language

Spider is a lightweight scripting language designed to be simple to build, 
easy to embed, and straightforward to learn.

## Why Spider?

Most modern scripting languages have become increasingly complex over time.
Spider was created to solve three main problems:

- **Hard to embed:** Languages like Lua have verbose APIs and JavaScript 
  interpreters are massive projects that take hours to compile.
- **Poor interoperability:** Python and Lua make it complicated to communicate 
  between the script and the host application.
- **Outdated syntax:** Spider aims for a clean, modern syntax without 
  requiring keywords like `end` or relying on indentation for structure.

## How it works

Spider compiles down to bytecode that runs on the Spider Virtual Machine (VM).
The VM is written in C and can be compiled with a single Makefile, making it 
easy to port to any platform, including microcontrollers like the ATmega328p.

## Current Status

Currently in early development. The VM architecture, instruction set, 
register table, and calling convention have been defined and are being tested.