JohnIrle / crafting-interpreters-rs

Crafting Interpreters in Rust

This is an in progress project aiming to implement both versions of the Lox Language from the book Crafting Interpreters in Rust.

Progress

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: A Tree-Walk Interpreter
• Chapter 3: The Lox Language
• Chapter 4: Scanning
• Chapter 5: Representing Code
• Chapter 6: Parsing Expressions
• Chapter 7: Evaluating Expressions
• Chapter 8: Statements and State
• Chapter 9: Control Flow
• Chapter 10: Functions
• Chapter 11: Resolving and Binding
• Chapter 12: Classes
• Chapter 13: Inheritance
• Chapter 14: Chunks Of Bytecode

Things I've learned so far

• How to implement an approximation of abstract classes and the visitor pattern in Rust using traits, generics and enums. Here and Here
• How to generate a source file by mapping over a grammar configuration. Here
• Scanning text to produce tokens. Here
• Parsing tokens to produce an abstract syntax tree for expressions. Here
• Enums in C are represented as integer constants.