glacia is an experimental programming language. Its primary distinguishing characteristic is that glacia programs are loaded into and then run out of databases. All program state is stored in a database. This makes glacia extremely slow but also allows glacia programs to be resumed, even after a power failure or similar event.

• git - For downloading the source code.
• Vagrant - For provisioning the development VM.

On Debian-based systems, the following should handle all dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install git vagrant

To download glacia, navigate to the desired folder and then clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/briansteffens/glacia
cd glacia

From the root of the git repository, bring up the virtual machine with the following:

vagrant/up

Note: The standard vagrant up also works. The difference is vagrant/up also remotes into the VM over SSH, builds a testing session in tmux, and runs the testing suite.