Vibe Coding a Lox Compiler, Part 5: The Bytecode VM

Written with AI This post — and all the code behind it — was built with Claude Code. Read Part 0 for the full story of how this AI-assisted project came together. This is part 5 of a series on building a Lox compiler in Rust. Parts 1 through 4 covered the language and compiler pipeline (Part 1), the tokenizer (Part 2), the parser and AST (Part 3), and the tree-walk interpreter (Part 4). ...

February 20, 2026 · 14 min · Ray Suliteanu