Show HN: I wrote a VM and Compiler for a small language in Go

by madrafion 5/4/2020, 5:13:37 PM with 2 comments
  • by stevekempon 5/6/2020, 9:37:24 AM

    Looks good, you might compare to this implementation of Monkey with a bunch of extensions (such as "objects", regular expressions, and a standard-library written in the language itself):

    https://github.com/skx/monkey/

    A similar idea allows embedded usage of a scripting language, as a filter:

    https://github.com/skx/evalfilter/

    Of course it gets addictive writing little languages, so you'll probably want to have fun and try making more! I went with BASIC:

    https://github.com/skx/gobasic

    But then you start thinking about assembly language:

    https://github.com/skx/math-compiler

  • by madrafion 5/4/2020, 5:13:37 PM

    I recently took time to dive into compilers and programming languages by reading Thorsten Bell's excellent books, and this is what came out !