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Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

#11

Post by brundolf » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 10:44 PM UTC

0b01 wrote: post #6

More like parser jam

I don't see how?

> You can build an interpreter or a compiler, so long as it can run or build examples of code in the programming language you create.

Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

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Post by yellow_lead » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 11:21 PM UTC

JavaScript was made in a weekend, wasn't it?

Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

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Post by codr7 » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 11:24 PM UTC

jhgb wrote: post #8

rodrick_setsoff wrote: post #3

Nice! I guess I've got to face ASTs again:)

Write a Forth. ;)

Or a Lisp and let the user face them instead.

Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

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Post by codr7 » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 11:27 PM UTC

I've been working on a toolkit for creating interpreted languages, right now I'm liking Swift a lot as host language:

https://github.com/codr7/swifties

Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

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Post by m_arnold » Sat, Jul 31, 2021, 11:54 PM UTC

yellow_lead wrote: post #12

JavaScript was made in a weekend, wasn't it?

10 days, IIRC

Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

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Post by jhgb » Sun, Aug 01, 2021, 12:04 AM UTC

codr7 wrote: post #13

jhgb wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Write a Forth. ;)

Or a Lisp and let the user face them instead.

Forth seems easier to do over a weekend, though.

Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

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Post by y2bd » Sun, Aug 01, 2021, 12:05 AM UTC

yellow_lead wrote: post #12

JavaScript was made in a weekend, wasn't it?

Even more motivation to give it a shot! Certainly you can’t do any worse ;)

Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

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Post by jhgb » Sun, Aug 01, 2021, 12:05 AM UTC

m_arnold wrote: post #15

yellow_lead wrote: post #12

JavaScript was made in a weekend, wasn't it?

10 days, IIRC

A weekend is 10 days, right? (I'll show myself out...)

Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

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Post by lytedev » Sun, Aug 01, 2021, 12:16 AM UTC

jhgb wrote: post #18

m_arnold wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

10 days, IIRC

A weekend is 10 days, right? (I'll show myself out...)

0b10 is the best 10

Re: Lang Jam: create a programming language in a weekend

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Post by codetrotter » Sun, Aug 01, 2021, 12:20 AM UTC

As someone that writes a lot in Rust, I have a longstanding dream to make a compiler for a subset of the language, since I don’t use all features of Rust and my hope is that this way I could have fast debug builds (in terms of compilation time) while I develop, with simplified borrow checker and so on. So then I can iterate faster. That’s one of my dreams. But I have not had time to even look at it yet, as the other code I work on takes precedence at the moment.

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