• Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
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    1 year ago

    At university the by far coolest and most fun course was compiler construction. We had to write something which would compile a small subset of Java (Javalette) into the Java Virtual Machine instruction set.

    I wrote my compiler in Haskell because it seemed that it’d be much less hassle compared to do it in a object oriented or procedual language.

    It ain’t pretty but it’s honest work: https://github.com/jeena/CC/blob/master/Compiler.hs

  • joyjoy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When you write a compiler, you eventually have to write it twice. Once in a pre-existing language, then again in the language it compiles.

    Just say no to bootstrapping.