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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by redmage on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @02:33PM (#1033072)
I'm working on 0xCOFFEE, a compiler for a toy language implemented using Ruby, TreeTop and LLVM.

http://github.com/meqif/0xCOFFEE

It's quite fun, but I had to fork llvmruby (the ruby bindings for LLVM), since it lacked some things, like allowing access to part of the LLVM API and raising RuntimeErrors instead of segfaulting (especially because of some code mutations that heckle[1] generates).

Currently, this is just a little project to keep me busy during the past holidays and the current university exam month, but I hope to create a nice language.

[1] http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2006/12/19/tormenting-your-test...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by Dav3xor on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @02:48PM (#1033114)
You need some sort of related technology called 0xDEADBEEF.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by silentbicycle on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @07:21PM (#1033793)
If you want a vegetarian port, there's also 0xFA1AFE1.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by Dav3xor on Thursday January 07, 2010 @01:50AM (#1036644)
That's a 0xFA1AFE1 lot for 4 bytes.
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