Design Goals

VILLASnode ...

is written in C the programming language
is using features of the C11 standard
is using an object oriented programming paradigm
can be compiled with Clang / LLVM or GCC
is released under the LGPLv2 license
only relies on open source software libraries and the Linux kernel
is extensible with new node types & hooks
is heavily multi-threaded
follows the Unix philosophy
is separated into a library (libvillas) and a few binaries (villas-server, villas-pipe, villas-test-*, villas-signal, villas-hook) which link against the lib.