Interpreted programming languages
Reading code with immediacy.
Animation
source code
interpreter
mov, call, cmpCPU
In short
- You first write source code, which is human-readable code.
- You use an interpreter to make the source code execute native CPU machine code.
- You distribute the source code to anyone who wants to run your program.
- Keeping the source code hidden requires obfuscating it.
What languages do this?
- PHP
- Ruby
- Python
- JavaScript (some are JIT compiled, like Chromium's V8)