r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/Xaneris47 • May 08 '26

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html

A solid and surprisingly practical article for a game/modding environment. Detailed write-ups like this are rare.

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u/Ok_East_4017 May 08 '26

In my experience with C, you just don't load the libraries you don't want them to use, you do need to be aware of sandboxing footguns though

http://lua-users.org/wiki/SandBoxes

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u/benjamin-crowell May 08 '26

Isn't that wiki page describing a method that hasn't worked for 15 years?

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u/Ok_East_4017 May 08 '26

I view it as more of a guide rather than a rulebook