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Re:Show HN: Whack – A simply-designed compiled programming l... by nsstring96 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @11:36AM (#18321087)

This is super cool, thanks for sharing! Are there any books or other resources that you found helpful in learning and implementing Whack? I’m dabbling a little bit with PLs and would love to hear your opinion.

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Re:Show HN: Whack – A simply-designed compiled programming l... by wycliffb on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:40PM (#18322621)

You might find Types and programming languages - Benjamin C. Pierce to be particularly interesting. There's a GitHub repo with a list of materials, can't seem to find it. When I do, will remember to share!

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Re:Show HN: Whack – A simply-designed compiled programming l... by nsstring96 on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:17AM (#18327704)

Thank you! Looks very interesting. As for working with LLVM codegen libraries, would you recommend anything beyond the official docs? I found that most books for this sort of thing are based older APIs from a few versions ago.

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Re:Show HN: Whack – A simply-designed compiled programming l... by wycliffb on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:36AM (#18327840)

I haven't come across good material on the matter. If you do use C++ I do recommend you employ RAAI idiom in code generation for help with lexical scoping for your language.

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Re:Show HN: Whack – A simply-designed compiled programming l... by wycliffb on Thursday November 01, 2018 @09:47AM (#18353812)

Check: https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers

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