https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29047584
I would expect that to add a constraint that makes the code bigger, not smaller? Or I'm probably misunderstanding how the different variants of the interpreter work.
Once I cleaned up the C code, I noticed that the entire program didn't use pointers at all! (Except of course to interop with Bestline, but that could be replaced with fgetwc() instead). That's when the idea occurred to me that, since it didn't use pointers, it was also technically valid JavaScript too. So I asked around on Twitter to see if anyone's done a C / JS polyglot before. I got some helpful tips from a code golfer in Estonia who experimented with the idea and he told me about the paragraph separator trick. https://twitter.com/angealbertini/status/1463755612345540611 So I updated the C code to hybridize the two: https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/lisp.js It's a shell script and a C program and it runs in the browser unaltered without needing to be compiled.
B might be an interesting choice of language for an uber-minimalist compiler, by the way.