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Life & fun · May 4, 2020

I wrote a VM and Compiler for a small language in Go

My implementation of Thorsten Bell's book (Writing an Interpreter in Go) - actuallyachraf/monkey-giggle

I wrote a VM and Compiler for a small language in Go launched on May 4, 2020 with 37 votes, #942 of 4,813 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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In plain words

This is a virtual machine and compiler implementation for a small programming language, written in Go. It's designed for developers and programming enthusiasts interested in language implementation and compiler design. The project demonstrates core concepts of how VMs execute code and how compilers translate source code into machine-executable form, making it suitable for educational purposes or as a foundation for language experimentation.

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