Do you recommend learning go for an interpreter project?

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  • lisp

    Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter

  • Among the listed, Racket stands out to me - it's really on point for the problem, things Racket are organized around implementing languages inside of Racket. That said, Go should be totally fine. I might recommend perusing https://github.com/robpike/lisp, https://github.com/robpike/ivy, there are some talks about these on YouTube. The style is really

  • ivy

    ivy, an APL-like calculator (by robpike)

  • Among the listed, Racket stands out to me - it's really on point for the problem, things Racket are organized around implementing languages inside of Racket. That said, Go should be totally fine. I might recommend perusing https://github.com/robpike/lisp, https://github.com/robpike/ivy, there are some talks about these on YouTube. The style is really

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  • Crafting Interpreters

    Repository for the book "Crafting Interpreters"

  • Writing an interpreter in Go is a great recommendation. Another resource that only came out last week is https://www.craftinginterpreters.com. The author has it available to read for free online.

  • go-parsing

    A Multi-Package Go Repo Focused on Text Parsing, with Lexers, Parsers, and Related Utils

  • pyright-python

    Python command line wrapper for pyright, a static type checker

  • You can statically type Python if you want. It has the syntax for it, but you need to use an external type checker like Pyright. It's easy to use with VS Code.

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