How to write a compiler or interpreter in rust

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    Language development libraries for Rust

  • nom

    Rust parser combinator framework

    Parsing framework: https://github.com/Geal/nom

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  • marwood

    An embeddable Scheme R7 Compiler & Runtime written in Rust

    The lexer can be found here and parser here.

  • TablaM

    The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications

    Exist some non-obvious things about interpreter implementation with Rust, so i share my opinions while building https://tablam.org:

  • inko

    You can use Inko as a reference, as its VM is written in Rust. I do recommend using this branch instead of the latest release, as there are a lot of upcoming changes to the language as a whole.

  • Oga

    Oga is an XML/HTML parser written in Ruby.

    In terms of parsing style I suggest sticking with a hand-written recursive-descent parser. Parser generators seem appealing at first, but I always ran into annoying limitations when using them (I wrote one in Ruby myself as well, and used this for this project). Parsing combinators are useful for small inputs, but I find them difficult to use for anything but simple cases.

  • cranelift-jit-demo

    JIT compiler and runtime for a toy language, using Cranelift

    Backend IRs for code generation: - Cranelift (see https://github.com/bytecodealliance/cranelift-jit-demo as well as the messages on the Zulip chat if you get stuck)

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