Frederik Gram Kortegaard /

Your First Compiler

A tutorial series on building a compiler from scratch in Python. We'll build a simple functional language called YFC (Your First Compiler) that compiles to x86-64 assembly.

Code repository: github.com/frederikgramkortegaard/yfc

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What Is a Compiler?
3. Lexical Analysis
4. Abstract Syntax Trees
5. Building the Parser
6. Extending the Language
7. Taking Stock

Coming Soon

• Introduction to x86-64
• Functions and Control Flow
• Unary Operators
• Mutable Variables
• Understanding Optimizations
• Pass Manager
• Constant Folding
• Dead Code Elimination
• Profiling
• Register Allocation

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