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Indie developer rewrites Leaf programming language in C

Original: so i continue making my own functional language called "leaf". decided to rewrite entire language in C (before that i us

A developer continues work on Leaf, a personal functional programming language, and has rewritten the entire implementation in C after previously using Zig. The rewrite has so far gone smoothly, with a new lexer and an AST compiler completed, and the developer reports being happy with the results. The update is drawing attention from the programming language design community, where hobby language projects and compiler implementation choices like switching from Zig to C are commonly debated.

Why now: Hobby language development and implementation language choices are actively discussed among programming communities.

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• so i continue making my own functional language called "leaf". decided to rewrite entire language in C (before that i used Zig), and so far it went really smoothly. i remade lexer and made ast compiler, im really happy with the result. # functionalprogramming # langdev #… · juliatty@tech.lgbt · 7

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