Continuum: A JS (ES6) VM Written in JS (ES3)

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A full ES6 VM implemented in ES3 that parses with uses Esprima parsing, compiles the AST to bytecode for a stack-machine interpreter, and implements the runtime meta‑object protocol. Claims compatibility with IE8, modern browsers and Node.js, exposes a debugger API and web UI, and self-hosts about 30% of the stdlib in ES6. Not fast enough for production but useful to experiment with features, inspect scopes, and prototype language semantics; currently hits a self-hosting infinite‑loop bug.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:05Continuum
3. 0:49ECMAScript Versions
4. 2:54Motivation
5. 17:33Object Representation
6. 25:24Standard Library Implementation

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