Implementing a Language in Java [closed]

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Question

I'm planning on designing and implementing my own programming language. Is it a good idea to build my language in Java and run it off of the JVM or would my language be faster if I wrote it in C and ran the code off of my own virtual machine?

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Solution

Maybe you can write your compiler in Java and let it compile to Java byte code. If you want to do this, you can have a look at the book "Compiler Construction" by Niklaus Wirth for the compiler part and use ASM(Java) to generate the bytecode. But you should think, wether you really want to build a compiler - it is not very easy.

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