I'm wanting to write my first compiler, but getting a little bit mixed up in general.

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  1. book

    Writing Interpreters in Rust: a Guide (by rust-hosted-langs)

    Kind of an interpreter but it does compile to bytecode and is written in rust https://github.com/rust-hosted-langs/book I thought it was a great tutorial, both for learning rust, and about compilers

  2. Nutrient

    Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers. Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.

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  3. proc

    Discontinued Procedural Intel x86_64 compiler from scratch, inspired by Fortran, Pascal and Assembly.

    If you would like an example, I am creating a compiler from scratch in C that compiles to x86_64 NASM Assembly, here is the repo: https://github.com/joshjkk/proc

  4. llvm-project

    The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

    This will be much easier using tools like LLVM, but this is the basic outline of creating a compiler.

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