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24 alternatives to A Tiny Compiler for a Tiny Functional Language

Compiler Backend for LSTS (High-Level Typed Macro Assembler) - andrew4328/lambda-mountain

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A Tiny Compiler for a Tiny Functional Language launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch▲159
Programming language that compiles into a x86 ELF executable. - riicchhaarrd/ocean
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A compiler and VM for a simple language, in 150 lines of code▲200
A complete compiler for a simple language (in less than 150 LoC) - 00_readme.md
2022 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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How to write a tiny compiler▲224
Write your own compiler: introduction. Code genetation. AST. Abstract syntax tree. lisp. javascript.
2017 · blog.klipse.tech · its alternatives →
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Lambda-8cc – An x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus▲249
x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus. Contribute to woodrush/lambda-8cc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
5
Compiler using Lisp’s macro system for metaprogramming C-like languages▲80
Next-level syntax for C-like languages :). Contribute to kiselgra/c-mera development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A compiler for a small language into x86-64 assembly▲74
Compiler for a small language into x86-64 Assembly - MauriceGit/compiler
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
7GI
Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter▲138
Hi all! I'm going into my freshman year, and figured that the best way to prepare for the intro to programming Racket course would be to implement my own garbage-collected, dynamically typed, functional programming language in C ;) Anyways... here's the repo: https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb I started learning C over the summer, so I still have a whole lot to learn... Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :D
2023 · its alternatives →
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Ultra Tiny Compiler in less than 90 lines of code▲61
Ultra Tiny Compiler. Contribute to antonmedv/ultra-tiny-compiler development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Maybe Haskell▲60
See what it’s like to program in a language without null.
2015 · books.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →
10
A hash array-mapped trie implementation in C▲171
Long-simmering side project that is finally ready to see the light. HAMTs are a cool persistent data structure and implementing one has been a lot of fun. Beyond the code, there is likely some value in the extensive and largely complete implementation docs; basic benchmarks are linked in the README, too. Kind of aiming to be "the libavl for HAMTs". That is obviously a high and aspirational bar but a distinct possibility if it stirs up a little interest and/or contribution. Anyways, it's time for this to go out, collect feedback and maybe even some use outside of toy projects. Let me…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
11MW
My "weekend" project, an ML dialect and compiler▲68
2012 · texodus.github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple virtual machine, assembler, and C compiler▲99
simple virtual machine and assembler. Contribute to ronsoros/rvm development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LM Programming Language▲3
Compact Typed Assembler
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
14PA
Philip2 – an Elm-to-OCaml compiler▲8
2019 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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A readable macroassembler for .NET that no one asked for▲67
Readable macroassembler for CLR IL. Contribute to akalenuk/milasm development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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L2: An elegant untyped, unsafe, unhygienic programming language▲83
A minimalist type-inferred programming language with procedural macro support - murisi/L2
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a VM and Compiler for a small language in Go▲37
My implementation of Thorsten Bell's book (Writing an Interpreter in Go) - actuallyachraf/monkey-giggle
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A self-hosted js compiler in 1k loc▲47
Minimal self-hosted JavaScript compiler in 1k lines of code - maierfelix/mini-js
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
19HP
High-performance ahead-of-time compiler for Machine Learning▲83
2018 · scss.tcd.ie · its alternatives →
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Kvist – a Lisp for systems programming that compiles to Odin▲34
A native, statically typed Lisp with a REPL that compiles to Odin. - kvist-lang/kvist
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pascal to LLVM Compiler in Haskell▲61
A Pascal to LLVM compiler in Haskell . Contribute to sam46/Paskell development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
22AA
Awl, a toy Lisp language written in C and transpiled to JavaScript▲8
2014 · skepsi.me · its alternatives →
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A minimal stack based VM in C▲60
A minimal stack-based VM. Contribute to codr7/liblg development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a minimal Forth-like stack interpreter library in C▲47
This weekend I created stacklib.h - a single-header library that brings Forth-style stack operations to C. It implements a basic interpreter with: - Stack operations (push/pop/dup/swap/over/drop) - Arithmetic (+, -, *, /) - Output (., emit, cr) - Stack inspection (.s, depth) Example usage: Stack s; stack_init(&s); dict_init(); exec(&s, "10 20 + ."); // Prints "30" exec(&s, "1 2 3 4 .s"); // Shows stack contents The library is self-contained, requires no dependencies, and handles basic error checking. It was inspired by wanting to understand…
2025 · its alternatives →

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