darius/tailbiter
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Self-compiling compiler of a Python subset. Just enough Python to Python in Python.
5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2016-06-14 · latest 2018-04-10
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…so? It's been a long time, and I don't remember exactly what I did while playing around with it. At https://github.com/darius/tailbiter I ported it to Python 3.4 and stripped it down to be in a subset of Python accepted by my self-hosting…
comment by abecedarius · 2018-04-10 · in A Python Interpreter Written in Python (2016) -
I see the author didn't know about another Python-subset-in-Python, https://github.com/darius/tailbiter -- I should've promoted it a little more, and maybe it'd have been helpful.
comment by abecedarius · 2018-03-05 · in Building Oil with the OPy Bytecode Compiler -
…`__getitem__` in some of these classes one of those times. Sorry I can't remember more. To write https://github.com/darius/tailbiter I had to know quite a bit about Python, but it's a big language! It was a mistake to assume I could use…
comment by abecedarius · 2017-08-31 · in Reducing Python's startup time -
Agreed, it looks great. More in that vein, for Python bytecode compiling and running: https://github.com/darius/tailbiter -- I can't quite resist mentioning it since I gave it a similar tag line, "just enough Python to Python in Python".
comment by abecedarius · 2017-04-27 · in Show HN: Pygit – Just enough git to push itself to GitHub -
…started to address that with a version of the VM in Python (cutting down Ned Batchelder's byterun): https://github.com/darius/tailbiter and I've started a very spare-time project to redo the parser as well (in the same repo). It'd be neat…
comment by abecedarius · 2016-06-14 · in Show HN: My own C compiler (just for fun)