Zef

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Zef is a dynamically typed object oriented and functional programming language developed primarily to demonstrate language implementation technique .

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How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter

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This post is about optimizing an extremely simple AST-walking interpreter for a dynamic language called Zef that I created for fun to the point where it is competitive with the likes of Lua, QuickJS, and CPython.