New devlog 5 pankti

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+date = 2023-03-09
+description = "Development Blog of Pankti Programming Language a Bengali programming language which runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and Web."
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+kws = ["Programming", "c" ,"rust", "golang", "programming-language", "bengali"]
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+tags = ["devlog", "programming"]
+title = "Devlog #5 - Pankti Language"
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+Hello folks 👋 
+It's been more than a month since I wrote in the English blog here.
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+I've been busy. I am working hard on rewriting the Panki Interpreter. 
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+![code code code](https://media.tenor.com/VpZ2Nf5gdRYAAAAd/pc-banging.gif ";;;;")
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+I am currently on the fifth iteration of rewriting from scratch. 
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+0. The original Tree walking interpreter written in Go.
+1. The bytecode compiler and vm written in Go.
+2. 1 (👆) written in Rust.
+3. Rewrite from Scratch with guidance from Crafting Interpreters (lox)
+4. Rewrite major parts of 3 (👆) from almost scratch because I made some huge blunders 🦧 which I am embarrassed to mention here.
+5. (Currently) Rewriting from Scratch in C.
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+I must say Rust ones were the most difficult to implement and kinda the slowest ones.
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+I started rewriting in Rust because I thought it would make improving and maintaining the codebases easy and error-free, well I was right but the cost of the decision was that the code base code was huge and ludicrously slow. I don't think it's fair to put all the blame for slowness on Rust itself, but it certainly is sometimes to blame.
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+![🦀](https://media.tenor.com/djaLJiqAxzIAAAAd/rust-lang-ferris.gif "🦀")
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+Look, I like rust. It's great but I don't think you can write a really fast interpreter without playing with unsafe rust.
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+Then Why Did I choose C?
+The first argument I would like to present is that C is simple and easy 🤯. 
+Second, it's freakishly fast.
+Third, I like playing with pointers.
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+I know I will introduce many bugs and maybe some memory leaks here and there but it will be a really good learning opportunity for me to use C in a real-world program.
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+Plus, C can be called from other languages such as Go, and Rust which will make it easy for me to write some portable GUI editor for the interpreter.
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+Before starting with C, I was afraid it would be really difficult to handle Bengali unicode characters but apparently, it's not that hard nowadays thanks to `wchar` and suckless's [libgrapheme](https://libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme/) is also handy if I need it later