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Yesterday I spoke at

about writing a codegerator targeting

. My slides, links and code are now online:

paul.bone.id.au

AST to WebAssembly, Writing a Code Generator — Paul Bone

Ever wonder how your compiler translates your program into machine code but worried that this was some eldritch knowledge, lurking in the depths of compilers...

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Thing that mainly stuck with me was seeing how compiling an AST to a stack-based IR was just about flattening a tree in a depth-first way. Loved the diagrams in the talk, they were super helpful!

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Also loved the encouragement to learners about how even though this stuff can sometimes be hard, and goes pretty deep, getting a basic understanding achievable and very rewarding. Kind of how I've felt learning the type theory stuff!