This is yet another implementation of the Monkey Programming Language authored by the incredible Thorsten Ball.
This project was not made with challenging the status quo in mind, but rather of a personal want to see through a project like this to the end.
STATUS UPDATE: IT'S DONE!
Finally, after a year and two months, my journey with this project has concluded! Feel free, whoever you are, to use whatever you want from this project that you want if at all seems useful to you.
I could not recommend the two books by Thorsten Ball: "Writing an Interpreter In Go" and "Writing a Compiler In Go" more. It's astounding how he made Compiler Engineering approachable, accessible, readable and digestible.
Given The script myscript.monkey:
let my_map = {
"one": fn(x) {
x + 1
},
"one1": fn() {
puts("this is so cool")
}
}
puts("This is my programming language")
let result_one = my_map["one"]("one")
my_map[result_one]()
> go run main.go -file myscript.monkey
This is my programming language
this is so cool
We also have macros!
let unless = macro(condition, consequence, alternative) {
quote(if (!(unquote(condition))) {
unquote(consequence);
} else {
unquote(alternative);
});
}
unless(10 > 5, puts("not greater"), puts("greater"));
Running this will result in greater to be printed.
Both execution modes for tree and vm are available for immediate execution. Given script.monkey:
> go run . -engine vm -file script.monkey
# or...
> go run . -engine tree -file script.monkey