gengjiawen / monkey-rust

A dancing with interpreter and compiler

monkey-rust

An interpreter for the Monkey programming language written in Rust

What’s Monkey?

Monkey has a C-like syntax, supports variable bindings, prefix and infix operators, has first-class and higher-order functions, can handle closures with ease and has integers, booleans, arrays and hashes built-in.

Official site is: https://monkeylang.org/. It's has various implementation languages :).

There is a book about learning how to make an interpreter: Writing An Interpreter In Go. This is where the Monkey programming language come from.

Features

• Split packages to make everything minimum
• REPL: A Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) for Monkey tokenizer, parser, evaluator, compiler
• location info for ast
• test for every module
• Wasm: A WebAssembly target, thus run monkey on browser is directly supported.
• bytecode viewer from source

AST Online playground

https://astexplorer.net/#/gist/e23a81ce309e8fcffe95ddd1b5661061/01d0b4b078304ddd9639eae9f4e6d342e2b9d075

Compiler playground

https://gengjiawen.github.io/monkey-rust/

Instruction

Build and test

$ cargo build
$ cargo test