tj/luna resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Luna is a small, elegant programming language with a VM implemented in C, featuring static typing with inference and coroutine-based concurrency. It is an early work-in-progress that currently only lexes, parses, and builds an AST - it cannot execute code yet.

Use cases

• study how a language VM and compiler are implemented in C
• explore programming language design and contribute to a new language
• learn about lexers, parsers, and AST construction
• experiment with statically typed scripting language syntax
• understand coroutine-based concurrency design

When to choose

• you want to read a small (~2000 SLOC) codebase to learn VM/compiler internals
• you want to participate in designing a new language from the ground up
• you need a minimal reference implementation of a lexer, parser, and AST

When to avoid

• you need a language that actually runs code - Luna cannot execute programs yet
• you need a production-ready or stable language for real projects
• you need a mature toolchain, libraries, or ecosystem
• you need a maintained project - development appears stalled since 2018

Facets

learning-resource · maturity experimental

programming-language interpreter parser compiler programming-languages compilers developer-tools cpp cli virtual-machine coroutines statically-typed repl work-in-progress linux macos

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