Lyric

A statically typed application language with a bytecode VM — standalone, and embeddable in a host with a capability-based sandbox.

What changed in v3.2.0 — 2026-08-23

A host can read and write a module's globals: LoadedProgram.GlobalCount, ReadGlobal(int) and WriteGlobal(int, LyrValue).

For a TOOL. A program reaches its own globals with an instruction and needs none of this; a debugger's Globals scope, or an editor showing a running game what it is holding, had no way in at all. The names and types were already there — GlobalNames from the debug section, Globals for the types, FieldNames for what is inside an object — so this is the one piece that was missing.

Nothing checks the type on write. A slot is a bit pattern and the program reads it as whatever its instructions expect, so writing a float where an integer stands produces a number nobody can explain rather than an error. Module.Globals carries the types; a tool is expected to have looked.