I'm a CS student at Old Dominion and developer who learns by doing - currently working on my own interpreted scripting language in C++.
- 🎓 Senior studying Computer Science
- 🧱 Partially self-taught - I dive deep into backend systems and APIs outside class
- 🛠 Building an interpreted scripting language in modern C++ (no frameworks, no hand-holding)
- 🕸️ Focused on backend development: APIs, databases, containerized deployments
- 🐍 Python was my intro to programming; I taught myself C++
A small, interpreted scripting language, written entirely in C++.
Current features & goals:
- ✏️ Hand-built tokenizer + parser (recursive descent)
- 🔁 Bytecode virtual machine
- 📥 File execution
- 🔤 Dynamic typing and simple built-ins
- 🧪 Focused on learning, not performance; later will be performace focused when it is completed and is open sourced to others
Learning how languages work — by building one from the ground up.
Languages:
Backend & Frameworks:
Tools & Infrastructure:
Testing:
Pytest, Factory Boy, Catch2
- 📫 Email: stephen@steyaert.xyz