Intro

We are finally done with building the development environment for Monkey after Part 1 and Part 2 of our series, by adding syntax highlighting with Tree-sitter and building a Language Server for it from scratch in Go respectively. If you haven't already I suggest you check them out.

In the final entry of the series we will put Monkey to "real" work, solving an AoC problem ( 2024 - Day 1 ). Attempting to solve this problem will quickly reveal how limited Monkey is, how the Tree-sitter corpus and all the LSP unit tests missed some bugs and how we had to improve upon the language by going back to our previous two projects.…