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How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days

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429 points rui314 | 1 comments | 14 Dec 15 14:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.325s | source
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sdegutis ◴[14 Dec 15 14:55 UTC] No.10731279[source]▶
Thought this was going to be an inspiration to me to continue with my pet project of writing my own little programming language. But it starts off on day 8 with him already having written a basic compiler, with no explanation of how he did any of the basics. Still interesting, just not what I thought it was.
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1. zellyn ◴[14 Dec 15 15:42 UTC] No.10731600[source]▶
I can't recommend the Coursera compilers course highly enough. It was enough to get me from zero to a fully working compiler. Albeit for a simplified language, and a really bad compiler :-)

If you did it in one of the languages for which scaffolding already exists, it'll be even easier (I did it in a different language, so had to build everything from scratch).