Austin Henley shares his challenge of building a Python-like interpreter in just 1024 bytes of C code, with no macros or external libraries. The interpreter focuses on syntax that looks like Python (def, colons, indentation) rather than full language compliance, and the article walks through his iterative process of refining the parser.
Background
Code golf and interpreter challenges are popular among systems programmers. Austin Henley is known for creating minimal implementations of programming languages and tools.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Sep 7, 2026 at 07:04 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10