Creating, Coding and Compiling a Compiler with LLVM (/dev/world/2013)

Presenter: Andrew Bennett

At one point or another many developers like to try their hand at writing a programming language, this is why there are so many awful programming languages out there. This talk births another of those languages, experience the horrific gore and miracle of programming language creation. This talk briefly covers parsing text, interpreting it as the guttural tongue of your primitive language, then using LLVM to interpret those horrific utterances into compiled native code.

LLVM is the technology at the heart of many of Apple’s core technologies; JavaScriptCore, OpenCL, and XCode’s default compiler to name a few. The overarching goal of this talk is to understand the structure of the LLVM API, how to interface with it, and how to leverage its amazing power and a few straightforward concepts to be able to make a flexible and optimised compiler without needing to be a super-computer-rocket-scientist.

[TheRealJKJones]

Is this set of slides published anywhere?

[matthijshebly]

C++ is a horrific language.
Couldn't they have chosen a proper programming language instead?