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Comment by supriyo-biswas

2 months ago

Heh, now I wonder how much JavaScript it actually interprets and given that it’s < 1000 lines, whether it could be used towards an introductory course in compilers.

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kccqzy  2 months ago

Obviously not. An introductory course would introduce concepts like lexers, parsers, AST, etc, instead of working on strings.

Here are lines 431 through 433:

    if expr.startswith('new '):
        obj = expr[4:]
            if obj.startswith('Date('):

Too  2 months ago

There’s a famous presentation by David Beazley where he implements a WASM interpreter in Python in under an hour. Highly recommended.