Current progress

I like zig and hence the bytecode VM will be in zig. Friendship ended with make, now build.zig is my best friend.

• Functional interpreter with support for:

1. function calls
2. operator precedence
3. closures
4. higher order functions
5. primitive data structures with builtin functionality:
   • string
   • boolean
   • integers
   • hashmaps
   • arrays

Demonstration

output_file.mp4

Usage

• If you are not using an x86 64 machine, change the TARGET value in the makefile accordingly

Compile

  make compile

Execute

  ./bin/mc # for repl
  ./bin/mc <path-to-file> # for executing a file

Sample program

Fibonnaci numbers

let fib = fn(x){
  if(x == 0){
      return 1;
  }
  if(x == 1){
      return 1;
  }
  return fib(x-1)+fib(x-2);
};
fib(15);

TODO

• adding support for strings and arrays
• adding support for hashmaps/hashtables
• build a bytecode compiler