What's the simplest language to implement?

• mal

  94 9,803 0.0 Assembly

  mal - Make a Lisp

When it comes to lisps, there is "Build Your Own Lisp" which also teaches you C and is a bit quicker paced than crafting interpreters (buildyourownlisp.com) and Make A Lisp (https://github.com/kanaka/mal) which has tons of implementations in many languages, for your taste.

• gox

  3 185 0.0 Go

  JSX for Go (by 8byt)

  

Depending on what you are trying to accomplish by writing "a language", extending an existing language or making a syntactically-different language that compiles to an existing language can be both fast and rewarding. For example, I made https://github.com/8byt/gox in a couple days with no prior language-design experience (gox is to Go as JSX is to Javascript).

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• jonesforth_arm64_apl

  3 30 10.0 Assembly

  JonesForth ARM64 with APL symbols

Indeed. See Jones Forth in 160 lines of Aarch64 asm.

• bootBASIC

  6 336 0.8 Assembly

  bootBASIC is a BASIC language in 512 bytes of x86 machine code.

BASIC interpreter in 512 bytes of 8086 asm

• minimal-lisp

  2 6 10.0 C

Lisp interpreter in 262 lines of C

• qscm

  1 4 10.0 C

  A tiny bootstrapped Scheme

Scheme compiler in 60 lines of C and 239 lines of Scheme bootstrapped from an interpreter in 273 lines of Haskell

• lbForth

  3 398 0.0 Forth

  Self-hosting metacompiled Forth, bootstrapping from a few lines of C; targets Linux, Windows, ARM, RISC-V, 68000, PDP-11, asm.js.

Forth compiler in 159 lines of Lisp and C

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