Selfie is a project of the Computational Systems Group at the Department of Computer Sciences of the University of Salzburg in Austria.
The Selfie Project provides an educational platform for teaching undergraduate and graduate students the design and implementation of programming languages and runtime systems. The focus is on the construction of compilers, libraries, operating systems, and even virtual machine monitors. The common theme is to identify and resolve self-reference in systems code which is seen as the key challenge when teaching systems engineering, hence the name.
There is a free book in early draft form called Selfie: Computer Science for Everyone using selfie even more ambitiously reaching out to everyone with an interest in learning about computer science.
Selfie is a fully self-referential 7k-line C implementation of:
- a self-compiling compiler called starc that compiles a tiny but powerful subset of C called C Star (C*) to a tiny but powerful subset of MIPS32 called MIPSter,
- a self-executing emulator called mipster that executes MIPSter code including itself when compiled with starc,
- a self-hosting hypervisor called hypster which is based on a tiny microkernel implemented in mipster and provides MIPSter virtual machines that can host all of selfie, that is, starc, mipster, and hypster itself, and
- a tiny C* library called libcstar utilized by selfie.
Selfie is kept minimal for simplicity and implemented in a single file. There is a simple linker, disassembler, profiler, and debugger as well as minimal operating system support in the form of MIPS32 o32 system calls built into the emulator.
Source:
http://selfie.cs.uni-salzburg.at/
https://github.com/cksystemsteaching/selfie