Let's Write a Toy Language from Scratch in Elixir

Without libraries, we’ll see how we can leverage Elixir specificities to easily tokenize, parse, print and interpret a toy language with a few recognizable features (variables, primitive types, closures).

Adding OTP and Phoenix LiveView to the mix, it evolves towards a quirky stateful computation system with basic graphical editing of programs.

You’ll have a look on implementing from scratch:

• Tokenization
• Parser combinators
• Pretty printers
• AST transformations Which are techniques that can be leveraged in daily work outside of the toy language domain!

• Developers who did not try writing a toy language yet, or who would like to see how some common problems can be implemented under the hood.