Building a REPL for a Scripting Language
Designing an interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop for the kai scripting language — multi-line input, expression auto-printing, state persistence, and graceful error recovery.
Designing an interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop for the kai scripting language — multi-line input, expression auto-printing, state persistence, and graceful error recovery.
From lexer and parser to bytecode compiler — building a Lua-like language frontend for a stack-based VM.
A deep dive into the design of a stack-based virtual machine, covering architecture, instruction set, execution model, and memory management.