What is that?

La-Rinha is an interpreter for the rinha language written in C.

This was a fun challenge created for a competition of interpreters and compilers by a group of independent developers using various programming languages. You can find more details here.

And if you're interested in learning how ancient primates used to create their programming languages, you've come to the right place! There are no flex, bison, llvm, or any other dependencies and dark magic tricks here—just good old pure C using the standard library, simple optimizations, and perhaps some questionable design guided by XGH. :)

I also tried to provide minimal in-code documentation so that it could be expanded later and generate some useful reference if processed by Doxygen or any other automatic documentation tool.

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Quick guide

Build

make

Test

make test

Run

./src/la-rinha /path/to/file/source.rinha

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Docker build

make docker

or

docker build -t la-rinha:latest .

Docker run

docker run -v /path/to/file.rinha:/var/rinha/source.rinha la-rinha:latest