n8ta / crlox

A rust implementation of clox

crlox

Crlox is a rust implementation of the lox language from the book craftinginterpreters.

Language Features

• Dynamic (python like field assignments)
• Closures, first class functions, & lexical scope
• Bound methods
• Dense bytecode format for fast execution and lower memory overhead
• Robust source code tracking that can print source code of any runtime exception.

Building

Only cargo required.

cargo build
cargo run path_to_program.lox

Testing

cargo test

Tests are in ./tests and run textXYZ.lox and compare its output to outXYZ.lox in teh same directory. As features are complete new tests can be moved out of ./tests/not_ready