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the-super-tiny-compiler
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ESLint: under the hood
Now, those concepts are a whole entire world to explore, and this is out of the scope of this article. I suggest the reading of the Chapters 4, 5 and 6 of the book Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom for a wider (but still practical) understanding of those subjects. Another practical great resource to look at is The SuperTiny Compiler. To explore them from a theorical point of view, you can find A LOT of resources from books or courses online.
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Abstract Syntax Trees and Practical Applications in JavaScript
The super tiny compiler by Jamie
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GCC uses GCC to compile itself
I am currently writing a much more intricate version of the Super Tiny Compiler (https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler) in Rust, only I plan on handling many basic operations, essentially a compiler for a MUCH simpler version of Go. Great project idea btw, for anyone who wants to explore compilers. But in doing so, have really found a new respect for just what is going on when you gcc -o garbageprogram mytrashcode.c
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how would you make a programming language if you were a complete beginner?
Here, at least take this floatie: https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler
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Any good resources for reading code?
Outside of this, I recently learned about The Super Tiny Compiler which was a project written to be read. Mind you, it has a vast amount of comments, which may be more of a leg-up than you're asking for.
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Ask HN: Guidance on writing a source to source compiler (transpiler)
You could start here:
https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler
That converts from lisp-like to javascript. Really though this is a big field, and there are lots of resources out there.
To get started look at your input language; you'll need to lex and parse that. Then massage the parsed structure into the appropriate output.
You can see me convert brainfuck to C, or x86 assembly language here:
https://github.com/skx/bfcc
- The Super Tiny Compiler
Crafting Interpreters
- Crafting Interpreters
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The Top 10 GitHub Repositories Making Waves 🌊📊
Build an Interpreter (Chapter 14 on is written in C)
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Writing a Debugger from Scratch: Breakpoints
I’m guessing you’ll have to work with the scopes in the resolver:
https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/blob/mast...
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loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
Better open an issue/request wiki edit at https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/wiki/Lox-implementations
- Gigachad Ken Thomson.
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Show HN: Yaksha Programming Language
I'm late to the party, but I want to say thank you for sharing this. It's inspiring to look at how much you've built and (hopefully) enjoyed the process of building! I'm loving everything -- your site, your language design, your docs, your builtin libraries, your dev tools. Beyond impressive. People like you are the ones who make HN one of my best places on the internet.
For context on where I'm coming from, about two weeks ago I picked up Crafting Interpreters [1] for fun. I'm finding your clear-yet-concise Compiler internals [2] to be particularly compelling reading, and jumping back and forth between those "how this all works" docs and the live example of this language you actually built do a WASM-compiled tree-blowing-in-the-wind animation is just... just wow. So freaking cool!
I also enjoyed reading the comment thread that inspired you to start on Yaksha and seeing how this project has a wholesome start as inspiration-by-programming-hero. I hope you recognize that a few years later you've now ascended from inspiree to inspirer. I also hope you're still having tons of fun building out Yaksha!
[1] https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
[2] https://yakshalang.github.io/documentation.html#compiler-int...
- Keeping track of returned and break-ed values between code blocks
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How do you start your own programming language?
There are books which will talk you through the process. Crafting Interpreters is highly spoken of; I used Writing an Interpreter in Go, because I like Go. Then there's Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (the "Dragon Book"). This is considered heavy, but a classic, it's been around since '86.
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Designing a new language
I cannot recommend Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom enough, it covers a lot of the stuff you need to know, completely for free.
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A roadmap to design programming languages
Crafting Interpreters is a fun primer on language design. It has a complete roadmap to build a fairly simple language, twice. There are some topics it won't touch on, like static type systems, but it provides a great introduction so that you can start tinkering and learn by doing.
What are some alternatives?
write-a-C-interpreter - Write a simple interpreter of C. Inspired by c4 and largely based on it.
git-internals-pdf - PDF on Git Internals
es6-cheatsheet - ES2015 [ES6] cheatsheet containing tips, tricks, best practices and code snippets
You-Dont-Know-JS - A book series on JavaScript. @YDKJS on twitter.
minipack - 📦 A simplified example of a modern module bundler written in JavaScript
tinyrenderer - A brief computer graphics / rendering course
flowy - The minimal javascript library to create flowcharts ✨
paip-lisp - Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming"
fslightbox - An easy to use vanilla JavaScript plug-in without production dependencies for displaying images, videos, or, through custom sources, anything you want in a clean overlying box.
CppCoreGuidelines - The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++
raspberry-pi-os - Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
30-days-of-elixir - A walk through the Elixir language in 30 exercises.