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Plank is a small compiled language whose whole compiler is one Python file. Structs, enums with match, optionals, closures, lists and dicts, a garbage collector, and native binaries through LLVM on macOS and Linux. Free and open source.
Building a language sounds like a year of work and most tutorials quit right before the part that makes a binary. I wanted the opposite: the smallest thing that's still a real compiler.
Plank is one Python file on llvmlite. You write fib in it and get a native executable. `plank emit` shows you the LLVM IR, which is the best way I've found to learn what a compiler actually does.
Arrays and structs are next. It's free and meant to be forked and taught from.
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About Plank on Product Hunt
“A compiled language you can read in an evening”
Plank was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #392 on the daily leaderboard. Plank is a small compiled language whose whole compiler is one Python file. Structs, enums with match, optionals, closures, lists and dicts, a garbage collector, and native binaries through LLVM on macOS and Linux. Free and open source.
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