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🌀 Bootstrapping

49 repositories

Sending the lambda calculus into deep space

Java 151 8 Updated Apr 27, 2022

Mechanized metatheory of LF in Twelf.

15 1 Updated Jun 3, 2012

Bootstrapping LISP in a Boot Sector

C 1,447 69 Updated Nov 27, 2024

Experiment on how to bootstrap the OCaml compiler

OCaml 111 7 Updated Apr 16, 2022

a minimalistic Forth kernel that can bootstrap

Forth 81 10 Updated May 1, 2022

An interpreter for a limited subset of Scheme

C 4 Updated Nov 8, 2020

Mirror of http://www.rano.org/bcompiler.tar.gz, with a bootstrap script

Shell 87 17 Updated Mar 9, 2021

sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector.

Assembly 454 32 Updated May 7, 2022

🧠 Brainfuck IDE and interpreter in 512 bytes. (boot sector)

Assembly 54 3 Updated Sep 6, 2023

A Forth interpreter, entirely written as bash script. But by now is yoda (https://github.com/Bushmills/yoda) the better bashforth.

Shell 70 7 Updated Jun 29, 2024

⚗️ Self-hosting compiler from a Haskell-like Lisp directly to x86-64, from scratch.

Haskell 163 4 Updated Jul 2, 2022

A self-hosting and educational C optimizing compiler

C 1,329 149 Updated Nov 26, 2025

An APL-like programming language

BQN 1,013 64 Updated Nov 24, 2025

A self-hosted Ada-inspired programming language for very small systems.

C 262 23 Updated Oct 1, 2025

An insanely simple self-hosted functional programming language

Rust 161 6 Updated Aug 2, 2019

Maru - a tiny self-hosting lisp dialect

Common Lisp 211 11 Updated Nov 13, 2025

a self-hosting lambda calculus compiler

Haskell 37 3 Updated Mar 31, 2025

Compiler for the Mirth programming language.

C 480 18 Updated May 22, 2025

Sed Lisp -- a lisp interpreter in GNU sed

sed 55 Updated Nov 7, 2020

a brainfuck compiler written in brainfuck

Brainfuck 574 20 Updated Feb 16, 2025

Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself. Includes 21 Lisp primitives, garbage collection and REPL. Includes tail-call optimized versions for speed and reduced memory use.

C 1,306 77 Updated Nov 6, 2025

A Lisp interpreter written in untyped lambda calculus

Common Lisp 246 12 Updated Mar 10, 2023

x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus

Common Lisp 673 18 Updated Oct 7, 2022

A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life

C 469 7 Updated Jan 17, 2022

A compiler and runtime for normalizing the untyped λ-calculus

C 32 2 Updated Jan 11, 2022

Post-Apocalyptic Computing: bootstrapping Forth environment for LC-3 CPU

C 92 4 Updated Aug 5, 2022

A portable, compact and extensible Scheme implementation that is fully R4RS compliant. This includes closures, I/O, tail calls, first-class continuations and a Read Eval Print Loop (REPL). The R4RS…

Scheme 544 61 Updated Nov 8, 2025

Journey to the Center of the Lambda Calculus

APL 14 Updated Aug 31, 2023

Lean 4 kernel / 'external checker' written in Lean 4

Lean 132 13 Updated Oct 5, 2025

Metaprogramming, verified meta-theory and implementation of Rocq in Rocq

Rocq Prover 484 94 Updated Nov 28, 2025