Is GO a good option to write a compiler/interpreter?

• salsa

  16 2,006 6.1 Rust

  A generic framework for on-demand, incrementalized computation. Inspired by adapton, glimmer, and rustc's query system.

  

Some optimizations are not easy with Go. For example caching like in Rust Analyser Salsa Framework

• Benthos

  76 7,559 9.6 Go

  Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

  

While I never wrote one, there are some good examples out there beyond the Go compiler itself. Have a look at the Benthos bloblang one (which is quite simple): https://github.com/Jeffail/benthos/tree/master/internal/bloblang and the go-jsonnet VM one (which is more complex): https://github.com/google/go-jsonnet

• WorkOS

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• go-jsonnet

  2 1,538 5.0 Go
  

While I never wrote one, there are some good examples out there beyond the Go compiler itself. Have a look at the Benthos bloblang one (which is quite simple): https://github.com/Jeffail/benthos/tree/master/internal/bloblang and the go-jsonnet VM one (which is more complex): https://github.com/google/go-jsonnet

• participle

  8 3,303 7.1 Go

  A parser library for Go

I made a domain specific language using https://github.com/alecthomas/participle what I found interesting is the grammar defined in structure annotations. After the parser runs, you get a fully instantiated structure based upon the input. I then invoke structure methods to do the work described in the DSL.

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