This is the third in a series of articles on building a brainfuck interpreter in Elixir. In the first part we built a minimal brainfuck interpreter that can already run some basic program. In the second part we completed it by implementing loops. In this third episode we'll write a simple compiler to translate Brainfuck instructions to a machine readable intermediate format (AST) and a VM that executes it.

This is the second in a series of articles on building a brainfuck interpreter in Elixir. In the first part we built a minimal brainfuck interpreter that can already run some basic program. In this second part we'll finish it implementing loop handling.

Brainfuck is an tiny, crazy, esoteric, turing complete, programming language made of only 8 instructions. The perfect language to write an interpreter for, the perfect small project to learn about Elixir fun!