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Life & fun · April 30, 2020

Building a scripting language and bytecode interpreter for education

Full gscript scripting language implementation using the GVM as a runtime environment. A language with objects, functions, strings, numbers and booleans. Easy to hack, understand, embed or modify. - gs-lang/README.md at master · geertvos/gs-lang

Building a scripting language and bytecode interpreter for education launched on April 30, 2020 with 40 votes, #1,016 of 5,003 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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This is an educational project that implements a scripting language and bytecode interpreter. It's designed for people learning about programming language design and how interpreters work. The project demonstrates the core concepts needed to build a language from scratch, including parsing and bytecode execution. It's available on GitHub for developers and students interested in understanding the mechanics behind how programming languages function.

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