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Comment by matheusmoreira

2 years ago

Yes. It has zero runtime dependencies but development currently assumes GNU tools. The test suite for example is entirely written in bash and uses GNU coreutils. I submitted a patch to coreutils to allow env to set argv[0] of programs specifically so I could use it in my test suite.

Currently lone is a single C source file. It could easily be compiled manually if necessary. I've started reorganizing the repository though so that's likely to change.

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nvy  2 years ago

>Currently lone is a single C source file.

Is there a plan to write a lone compiler so as to eventually have lone bootstrapping/compiling itself so that you no longer have to sully your hands with C?

  • matheusmoreira  2 years ago

    I would like that. I wanted to create the simplest possible reference C implementation first so the language can always be bootstrapped with a C compiler. After that, I'll probably make a better one. I'm considering a Rust implementation as well.

    At least that's what I tell myself. Just this simple interpreter has already generated a lifetime of work. It's making me wish I had infinite time to work on it.