Building a language on the JVM

We are getting more and more languages - but sometimes the best solution is actually to build one yourself. Whether you choose to build a small DSL or a fullblown language, many of the techniques are the same.

This presentation will discuss the different aspects of implementing a language on top of the JVM. It will cover parsing, a bit about type systems, what the runtime support generally looks like, how you can create a compiler, and many more things.


Ola Bini

About Ola Bini

Ola Bini works as a language geek for ThoughtWorks in Chicago. He is from Sweden but don't hold that against him. He is one of the JRuby core developers and have been involved in JRuby development since 2006. At one point in time, Ola got tired of all existing programming languages and decided to create his own, called Ioke. He has written a book called Practical JRuby on Rails Projects for APress, talked at numerous conferences, and contributed to a large number of open source projects.

His main passion lies in implementation languages, working on regular expression engines, trying to figure out how to create good YAML parsers.

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