This repository is a wrapper for a brilliant tutorial written on .
It aims to teach general programming languages architecture while building an interpreter for a new language called Lox.
As this is a tutorial implementation you can find already the author implementation on for the Lox language. Since the aim of the tutorial is to teach the architecture not to build a strong structure/rich of feature language the interpreter contains few essential features like:
- Supports only 4 primitive types: Booleans, Numbers, Strings and Nil.
- Supports basic expressions: arithmetical and logical lines to be evaluated by the interpreter.
- Supports basic statements: allows to invoke functions and allows blocks/scopes to exist within the language.
- Supports variables: prefixed by the keyword var.
- Supports control flow constructs like most others languages: if, while and for.
- Supports functions as first class citizens, being existing on their own within a scope and being containable in variables.
- Supports some object-oriented features: classes, objects by initializing classes.., inheritance.
Any standard library allowing to do anything more useful than a calculator with memory. Does not support user input neither i/o of any kind, networking etc.
For the purposes of this tutorial i'm making this repo to collect two main implementations presented in the tutorial, one done with java to implement the lox interpreter within ~200 lines and one written in c more performant and more long. So both the implementations are contained in the sub-repos of this repository