I started writing my own language in JavaScript last Summer but gave up after on...

Theyeard · on Nov 4, 2014

Kaleidoscope - LLVM Tutorial [0] is an excellent resource with code samples in C++ and OCaml.

[0] http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/index.html

eric_bullington · on Nov 4, 2014

Agreed, it's an excellent resource. One of the best PL tutorials I've ever read.

But if you use the OCaml version with a recent version of OCaml, you'll run into a few issues. I sent in a patch with a few simple updates to the path mailing list earlier this year, but last I checked it wasn't merged.

Patch is here (it's a text file, despite the "bin" extension):

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.cvs/183...

I also pasted the patch here:

http://pastebin.com/YvzB71nJ

d0m · on Nov 4, 2014

Not all parsers need to be complex. If you're up for the challenge, read a bit on top-down parser and try to write it for your language!

kyberias · on Nov 4, 2014

There may be better books but this was fairly pragmatic and I learned a lot: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Processors-Java-I...

pjmlp · on Nov 4, 2014

Niklaus Wirth´s book about compiler construction is quite good.

It is available at his ETHZ site nowadays,

http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf