Show HN: Fork, a toy self-hosting language and compiler that compiles to C

#1

Post by mcilloni » Sat, Oct 06, 2018, 2:23 PM UTC

Show HN: Fork, a toy self-hosting language and compiler that compiles to C
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Re: Show HN: Fork, a toy self-hosting language and compiler that compiles to C

#2

Post by 2trill2spill » Sun, Oct 07, 2018, 3:37 AM UTC

Neat project, what was your motivation for writing it?

Re: Show HN: Fork, a toy self-hosting language and compiler that compiles to C

#3

Post by irishcoffee » Sun, Oct 07, 2018, 5:34 AM UTC

2trill2spill wrote: post #2

Neat project, what was your motivation for writing it?

I think the readme covered it:

> I've developed in my spare time a few years ago (2014~2016) mostly as a toy, and as a way to tinker and learn how parsers and compilers work.

Edit: mobile typo

Re: Show HN: Fork, a toy self-hosting language and compiler that compiles to C

#4

Post by 2trill2spill » Sun, Oct 07, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

irishcoffee wrote: post #3

2trill2spill wrote: post #2

Neat project, what was your motivation for writing it?

I think the readme covered it: > I've developed in my spare time a few years ago (2014~2016) mostly as a toy, and as a way to tinker and learn how parsers and compilers work. Edit: mobile typo

Thanks I most have missed that in the README.