Rust lox

Open-source Rust projects categorized as lox

Top 4 Rust lox Projects

  1. loxcraft

    Language tooling for the Lox programming language.

    Project mention: Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-31

    This is really well-written!

    Shameless plug: you may want to check out https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/loxcraft. I too followed the path of "ignore safe Rust for maximum performance". It got pretty close to the C version, even beating it on some benchmarks.

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  3. luxya

    Programming language with a tree-walking interpreter written in Rust©™.

  4. rox

    An interpreter for the Lox language (by ltungv)

    Project mention: Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-31

    I implemented exactly what you were saying here (https://github.com/ltungv/rox/commit/6a611e7acb3b36d0a3a4376...). But where's the fun in that?

  5. jlox-rs

    Following along the first (Java) part of https://craftinginterpreters.com/, but with Rust, because reasons.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection

    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2024
  • Implementing Crafting-Interpreters in Rust - Chapter 18 - Strings

    1 project | /r/learnrust | 24 Jun 2023
  • Loxcraft: A compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox progra

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2023
  • loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language

    1 project | /r/Compilers | 29 Apr 2023
  • Advice on transition from single pass compilation to multi pass

    1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 16 Aug 2021
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Index

What are some of the best open-source lox projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 loxcraft 300
2 luxya 28
3 rox 27
4 jlox-rs 19

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