The Candle Ecosystem

Candle is designed as a collection of interoperable components.

Component	Responsibility
CandleVM	Bytecode execution
CASM	Low-level programming language
CandleC	CASM compiler and linker
CandleStd	Standard-library functionality
CandleSys	System plugins
Candle Tools	Visual Studio Code extension for CASM language support and CandleC project workflows

Compatibility

Each Candle ecosystem component is compatible with all the other ones of the same generation.