interpreter

What is it?

This project contains a toy c-like programming language that i'm implementing while studying compiler theory. For now the language is implemented by an interpreter that runs directly on the parsed AST, ~but in the future i may compile it down to bytecode or x86 machine code~ - I since have moved to another language that implements a full featured bytecode virtual machine and compiler, so if you're intrested in compilation to bytecode you can take a look at that.

Examples

You can find some examples of the language in src/main/resources

Compiling to bytecode

The branch bytecode contains a simple experimental compiler that outputs bytecode to be run by this virtual machine. The implementation is pretty minimal and won't be expanded further, as I moved to another project, but feel free to take a peek in there

How do i run it?

If you use an IDE, simply import the project as a maven project.

If not, manually compile it using the maven command:

mvn package

A jar file will be created in the target folder. Then, to run the interpreter, type in the terminal:

java -jar target/interpreter-1.0.jar src/main/resources/test.c+-