Rubylox

This is a Ruby 3.x interpreter of the Lox programming language from Crafting Interpreters

Usage

1. Clone the repo
2. Run bundle install
3. Run bundle exec exe/rubylox lox_programs/fibonacci.lox or whatever script you want to run.

Features/Chapters Implemented

• Scanning
• Parsing
• Evaluating
• Statements
• Expressions
• Control Flow
• Function Calling
• Function Definition
• Resolving and Binding
• Classes
• Inheritance

Some things that could be done

• Overall Cleanup
• Better error handling and reporting
• Better test coverage
• CLI REPL
• Extra exercises from the book
• Maybe extra features not in the book

Benchmarks

I've run benchmarks against the oficial Java implementation from the book in my Macbook Air M1 2020. It's uuhh... pretty slow.