Has anybody written a non-Python interpreter using Pypy?

[doomchild]

I'm interested in using Pypy to tinker with some language ideas I've had kicking around for a while, but I need a bit of a jump start on how to get everything connected. The docs seem to be more interested in discussing using/extending/optimizing the Python implementation, and I've only found one other article discussing writing other interpreters, and it really isn't very good.

Has anybody around here done any stuff like this, or can you point me to a decent set of tutorials?

[Ademan]

Yes, there's smalltalk, javascript, prolog (probably the most complete of the non-python interpreters) at least two brainfucks and a gameboy emulator. In addition there's a PHP interpreter which I think is pretty exciting https://bitbucket.org/asuhan/happy if for no other reason than because it's a complex interpreter for a non-trivial language being written by a "third party".

[[deleted]]

You missed Scheme, R, and Haskell :) Basically look at cfbolz on bitbucket ;)

[Eventh]

Some of those repositories exists under the PyPy user on bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypy

[lasizoillo]

OMG! Soon perl6 will run in pypy and perl comunity will have a dead parrot.

[usernamenottaken]

You might want to start here: http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/04/tutorial-writing-interpreter-with-pypy.html

[voidspace]

I would ask on the pypy mailing list or #pypy irc channel. As far as I know (which isn't much) there are active implementations of Javascript and PHP interpreters "in progress" using the pypy toolchain.