evocation - Call forth the blue-green flame of computation from the universe, weave its energies into a fabric, that we may share our blood with it

Evocation is a self-hosting, self-bootstrapping dialect of Forth targeting amd64, built without any use of neural networks. It introduces a novel 'hex transform' that converts the compiled binary into a heavily commented, auditable hex dump, extending the mescc/guix bootstrapping philosophy and Ken Thompson's 'Reflections on Trusting Trust' to a high-level-language compiler for the first time. The README walks through building Evocation from its hex-encoded root of trust, exploring the interactive REPL, its RPN syntax, high-level flow-control words, its memory model (the 'log'), and its source file layout, including the especially complex 'transformation facility' used to compile Forth into standalone ELF executables. It closes with instructions for regenerating the hex dump for distribution and a references list covering ELF, System V ABI, and related Forth/concatenative-language projects.

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