Compiler design reddit

How to do compiler design?

Writing a simple compiler is easy.
I wrote a compiler for a toy language as part of an undergraduate CS class.
There are even tools, like YACC (Yet Another Compiler Compiler), to do some of the heavy lifting for you.
YACC creates the parser—the part of the compiler that “understands” the source code..

How to make your own compiler reddit?

If you really want to understand compiler construction, you will learn that it is not easy..

The short version:

1. You'll need to define your language first
2. Then you'll need a lexer (like flex, but there are many) to turn your source code into tokens
3. Then you'll need a parser (like bison, but there are many) to turn your tokens into abstract syntax trees