Post #2475570
2026-04-23 19:11 UTC
as someone with a blossoming interest in compilers, i was very excited to learn about QBE, a "hobby-scale and pleasant to hack on" compiler backend/intermediate representation https://c9x.me/compile/ (i had been thinking "what if i had my hobby compiler emit llvm ir" but then i visited the llvm ir language reference page and scores of wailing banshees emerged)
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@alys@selfy.army 2026-04-23 23:55
@aparrish@friend.camp that could be useful for the various hobby compiler ideas i have mused about. curious how much of the llvm ir horrors are from the project's enormous scope versus avoidable technical debt