How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter
pizlonator
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14 comments
April 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
grg0
Interesting, thanks for sharing. It is a topic I'd like to explore in detail at some point. I also like how, according to Github, the repo is 99.7% HTML and 0.3% C++. A testament to the interpreter's size, I guess?
boulos
How's your experience with Fil-C been? Is it materially useful to you in practice?
tiffanyh
I see Lua was included, wish LuaJIT was as well.