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Over the years, I've mucked around with creating my own personal programming language. It's called Gestalt. The yet unreleased repository will be here: https://github.com/soundandform/gestalt
Early on I decided I needed an efficient interpreter to achieve the instant-feedback, live-coding environment I desire. Deep (traditional) compilation is too slow and totally unnecessary during development. And, most importantly, compilation latency destroys creative flow.
Early on I decided I needed an efficient interpreter to achieve the instant-feedback, live-coding environment I desire. Deep traditional compilation is too slow and totally unnecessary during development. And, most importantly, *compilation latency destroys creative flow*.
I briefly considered retooling something extant. The Lua virtual machine, one of the faster interpreters, is too Lua centric. And everything else is just way too slow.
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* stack [index] = o;
return_t r = CallNextOperation (registers...); // executes to the end of the scope/block/curly-brace, then returns
return_t r = CallNextOperation (registers...); // executes to the end of the scope/block/curly-brace & returns
if (o->ReferenceCount () == 0)
runtime->DestroyObject (registers..., o); // calls o's destructor and frees memory

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