I have written a toy language in JavaScript

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Emesh is a toy programming language implemented in JavaScript. It is designed for developers interested in programming language design and implementation. The project is open source and available on GitHub for contributions and exploration of how a simple language interpreter works.

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  Yaksha Programming Language2023 · yakshalang.github.io · ▲205

  I have been working on this for a while. Main goal was to build a usable programming language. I even end up building few tools for this such as IntelliJ plugin, etc. I also plan on building some games with it in future. Main use case would be: small games (raylib), tools (static linux binaries with musl-libc) and recreational programming (wasm4). Works in Windows also. If you have emscripten in path you can even build these games/tools (raylib) to WASM. Please have a look. Thank you. ------------------------------------- Main Repo:…

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  ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software2023 · scrapscript.org · ▲503

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