Crafting Interpreters Learnings

Lox scripting language interpreters.

High-Level Architecture

1. Tree-walk Interpreter (jlox – Java)

Lexing -> Parsing -> AST -> Interpreting

• Variables & Scope
• Control Flow
• Functions & Closures
• Classes

2. Bytecode VM (clox – C)

Compiler -> Bytecode -> Virtual Machine (VM)

• Memory & Garbage Collection
• Optimizations

Reference

Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom