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Re:A Simple Compiler in JavaScript by pjmlp on Sunday January 21, 2018 @03:57PM (#16199983)
That makes sense after having a language reaching 1.0 in production use.

Not so much when prototyping, when it isn't even clear if the language is going to get any users beyond the design team.

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Re:A Simple Compiler in JavaScript by seanmcdirmid on Sunday January 21, 2018 @04:28PM (#16200144)
My last few languages have all been prototyped by hand, but they were all live languages (with continuous re-parsing and interpretation), so I didn’t have much choice :). I havent bothered with ANTLR since grad school.
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