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 # NimVM
 A basic programming language written in Nim
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+## Project structure
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+The project is split into several directories and submodules to ease human inspection:
+- `README.md` -> This file here (lol)
+- `docs` -> Contains markdown files with the various specifications for NimVM (bytecode, grammar, etc)
+    - `docs/bytecode.md` -> Lays out the bytecode specification for NimVM as well as serialization guidelines
+    - `docs/grammar.md` -> Formal grammar specification in EBNF syntax
+- `src` -> Contains source files
+    - `src/main.nim` -> This is the main executable for NimVM (REPL, run files, etc.)
+    - `src/backend` -> Contains the backend of the language (lexer, parser and compiler)
+        - `src/backend/meta` -> Contains meta-structures that are used during parsing and compilation
+        - `src/backend/lexer.nim` -> Contains the tokenizer
+        - `src/backend/parser.nim` -> Contains the parser
+        - `src/backend/compiler.nim` -> Contains the compiler
+    - `src/frontend` -> Contains the language's frontend (runtime environment and type system)
+        - `src/frontend/types` -> Contains the implementation of the type system
+        - `src/frontend/vm.nim` -> Contains the virtual machine (stack-based)
+    - `src/util` -> Contains generic utilities used troughout the project
+    - `src/util/bytecode` -> Contains the bytecode serializer/deserializer
+        - `src/util/bytecode/serializer.nim` -> Contains the bytecode serializer
+        - `src/util/bytecode/deserializer.nim` -> Contains the bytecode deserializer
+        - `src/util/bytecode/objects.nim` -> Contains object wrappers for bytecode opcodes
+    - `src/util/debug.nim` -> Contains the debugger
+