spi VS AECforWebAssembly

Like the other poster said, crafting interpreters was a big inspiration even though i've different overall goals eg. multiple-pass is going to be in my compiler and i aim to compile, not interpret with a vm. But alot of what that book talks about is completely relevant. I also want to learn more about ast transformation and optimization eventually. One of my original inspirations was https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/ and one of my first tries with Go was based on it https://github.com/thegtproject/spi. r/Compilers and r/ProgrammingLanguages are really great resources too. There's a lot of good stuff out there.

I've been going down this rabbit hole for the last few years (!). Turns out I really enjoy compiler theory and design. I can whole heartedly recommend you start off with these 3 resources: https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/, http://craftinginterpreters.com/, https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/MyFirstLanguageFrontend/index.html in that order. My first project when trying out Go was going through ruslanpivak's series https://github.com/thegtproject/spi (a little rough around the edges!) and it was a lot of fun.

Great! I have not yet made source maps for my programming language that compiles to WebAssembly, and I probably never will.

Up until today, my AEC-to-WebAssembly was, if somebody tried to use two structures of different types as the second and the third operand to the ?: (ternary conditional) operator, as in this example: ``` Structure First Consists Of Nothing; EndStructure

Well, I have written the first compiler for my programming language, targetting x86, in IE6-compatible JavaScript, and the second compiler, targetting WebAssembly, has been written in C++11. I think that, to choose a language to write a compiler in, you need to look at at least two things:

You can see the releases v2.5.3 and v2.5.2 of AECforWebAssembly on GitHub. They are produced with the same version of GCC, the only difference (as far as I know) is that v2.5.2 was produced directly on Debian, whereas v2.5.3 was cross-compiled from Windows to Linux using Docker.

That could be true. I host my AEC-to-WebAssembly compiler on GitHub, GitLab and SourceForge, and it's only on GitHub that it has 21 stars and 2 forks. On GitLab and SourceForge, it has zero of both.

Well, the main compiler for my programming language is targetting the JavaScript Virtual Machine by outputting WebAssembly. I think it's even better than targetting Java Virtual Machine, because, for one thing, your executables can run in any modern browser if you output WebAssembly. If you target Java Virtual Machine, the users need to actually download your app. Furthermore, there is an official assembler for WebAssembly called WebAssembly Binary Toolkit (WABT), so your compiler can output assembly and not have to deal with binary files. There is nothing equivalent to that for Java Virtual Machine.