The article discusses the author's journey of building their own programming language called Pyle and its virtual machine in Python.
Pyle serves as an educational project to understand the inner workings of programming languages and how text translates into computer instructions.
The article describes the stages involved in the language processing pipeline from lexer to parser, compiler, and stack-based virtual machine (VM).
Pyle can handle variables, numbers, strings, arrays, arithmetic, logical, comparison operations, loops, function definitions, and even importing Python modules.
A showcase example in JavaScript syntax demonstrates creating a function to check for prime numbers and using the importpy function to get a random number for testing.
Building Pyle has provided the author with a deeper understanding of compilers and virtual machines, enhancing their appreciation for programming tools.
The article concludes by encouraging readers to explore such projects for a better understanding of programming concepts, with the Pyle project available on GitHub.