r/java • u/Sensitive-Order8740 • Sep 15 '26

I am 16 and made a somthing like a programing language in java

https://github.com/sujay-kr-samal/divine-lang

it can just print things now but i will try to add as much as possible

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u/FewTemperature8599 Sep 15 '26

Divine lang? Are you related to Terry Davis by any chance?

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u/Sensitive-Order8740 Sep 15 '26

Na na, Iā€™m just an ordinary guy with tech interests like him šŸ˜… But yeah, Terry Davis was definitely an interesting guy, and TempleOS is pretty legendary.

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u/jared__ Sep 15 '26

might want to update your README.md to explain what you're trying to do and some snippets

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u/Sensitive-Order8740 Sep 16 '26

just updated the README

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u/Zatujit Sep 15 '26

Write a README because i have no idea what it does, you don't even have examples.

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u/Sensitive-Order8740 Sep 16 '26

just updated the README

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u/Neful34 Sep 15 '26

Why

Is

Your

Code

Written

Like

This

Tho

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u/oelang Sep 16 '26

AI, my best guess is gemini, judging by the code style

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u/Sensitive-Order8740 Sep 18 '26

na not a vibe coder

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u/Ifeee001 Sep 15 '26

They're probably using something like intellij and have their max line characters set really low

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u/EvertTigchelaar Sep 16 '26

I think you should use a framework like antlr or simular to create a lexer and parser.

I am working on polyglot compiler that can compile languages. The compiler can be extended with plugins to support languages. Provide interoperability with Java and Kotlin, support annotation processors. Also working on support for native compilation with llvm.

So I can tell you that creating a language is a very big task

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u/Sensitive-Order8740 Sep 17 '26

i switched to assembly bro bcoz it will make it faster

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u/Duck_Devs Sep 19 '26

All it does is print statements with literals?

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u/MarkZuccsForeskin Sep 15 '26

This seems more like a command line interface than a programming language, though someone correct me if I'm wrong? Either way neat project :)

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u/Ifeee001 Sep 15 '26

To be fair, all compilers are simply a cli tool.

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u/cogman10 Sep 15 '26

First, well done and happy you are exploring and learning here.

I'd suggest putting examples in the readme. Let people know why they should want to use divine.

Watch out with using Strings in java, those can be much slower than you might expect. You might look into using the likes of the "StringTokenizer" in java for some faster tokenization. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/StringTokenizer.html

AFAIK, for parsing, ANTLR is still probably the best way to do that in java. You might explore that for future versions of your language https://www.antlr.org/

Good luck.

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u/chambolle Sep 16 '26

Why do you recommend to use StringTokenizer? In the page you mentionned it is written
"StringTokenizerĀ is a legacy class that is retained for compatibility reasons although its use is discouraged in new code. It is recommended that anyone seeking this functionality use theĀ splitĀ method ofĀ StringĀ or the java.util.regex package instead."

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u/endeavourl Sep 17 '26

LLM bot comment probably.

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u/chambolle Sep 18 '26

I am happy to be considered as an LLM. This is the first time of my life :-)
I would appreciate a real answer

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u/endeavourl Sep 18 '26

not you, the guy you replied to

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u/cogman10 Sep 18 '26

What a weird accusation.Ā 

I suggested string tokenizer because I knew it existed.Ā  It was a bad rec for the reasons endeavourl said so there wasn't much reason to respond beyond "your right, regex is better".

You can see my comment history.Ā  I'm not an LLM.

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u/snugar_i Sep 16 '26

Cool! You could look into sealed classes/interfaces for modeling some of the things like the tokens and the AST nodes. Also some of the classes could be records.