Show HN: Pico, a small register-based scripting language I wrote in C

Category: other

Tags: scripting-language, virtual-machine, register-based-vm

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 4)

PiCo is a small, register-based scripting language and virtual machine written in C, featuring a compiler, REPL, closures, classes, and a manual GC mode. Its design is a competent reimplementation of familiar scripting language concepts with some novel syntactic sugar like pipe operators, making it interesting for language enthusiasts as a compact learning or prototyping tool.

Target audience: programming language enthusiasts, hobbyist systems programmers

Repository: https://github.com/the0cp/pico · C · GPL-3.0 · 2 stars

View on Hacker News