JuLox: What I Learned Building a Lox Interpreter in Julia

Re:JuLox: What I Learned Building a Lox Interpreter in Julia by TwentyPosts on Saturday June 03, 2023 @06:57PM (#36181316)

Personally, I found "Writing an Interpreter in Go" better than "Crafting Interpreters". It has a follow-up book titled "Writing a Compiler in Go", which (similar to Crafting Interpreter's second half) implements a virtual machine. The books take a lot of inspiration from Crafting Interpreters.

If this sounds at all appealing to you, I would check it out. I found Monkey so far somewhat more compelling than Lox (might be personal preference, though), and I thought the exposition (and code quality) was overall better. Go is also very easy to pick up.

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Re:JuLox: What I Learned Building a Lox Interpreter in Julia by lukemerrick on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:47AM (#36183822)

Thank you for the tip! Getting to implement a different language from Lox feels like a nice way to cut down on the tedium.

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