Hello,

I have been learning rust and want to make something exciting so I though why not build a Lisp compiler in Rust B)

so here what I did today. https://gist.github.com/anon2834678263/bcaa06e934f7b478be79203553f170ee

the tokenizer isn’t ready and might have horrible bugs but at least I got comfortable declaring immutable variable by default, not surrounding stuff with parentheses unnecessarily. oh and also Enums which is most powerful thing in rust as people say.

I am still not satisfied though since the code looks more like C than Rust xD

maybe some experienced people can correct me :)

  • ☭可爱小猫☭@programming.devOP
    3·
    7 days ago

    Thank you kind stranger!

    I will take notes and will make these changes. after improving this I will move to create AST which would be more fun! again thank :)

    • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      FYI once you’re done you should take a look at some of the parsing libraries out there. Some I’d recommend looking at:

      • pest - grammar based
      • lalrpop - more traditional LR(1) parser generator
      • winnow or nom - parsing combinators, probably the easiest of these to use (and most flexible)