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This is the first post in a series on writing your own C compiler. Here are some reasons to write a compiler: You’ll learn about abstract syntax trees (ASTs) and how programs can represent and manipulate other programs. Handy for working with linters, static analyzers, and metaprogramming of a…

This is the first post in a series on writing your own C compiler. Here are some reasons to write a compiler: You’ll learn about abstract syntax trees (ASTs) and how programs can represent and manipulate other programs. Handy for working with linters, static analyzers, and metaprogramming of all sorts. You’ll learn about assembly, calling conventions, and all the gritty, low-level details of how computers, like, do stuff. It seems like an impossibly hard project (but isn’t!), so wri