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Lots of people have done implementations in other languages: https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/wiki/Lox-...

I did the first half in Clojure (in order to teach myself Clojure), worked just fine. I had to do a bit of translation but it's really not a lot.

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I find it’s the best way to work through these types of books - otherwise I tend to just copy the code mindlessly. Doing the exercises from a book in another language forces you to consume the semantics of it better.

I did the Torsten Ball books in Kotlin rather than Go and learned a lot

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