AlxLang*

Yet Another General Purpose Programming Language No One Asked For

(YAGPPLNOAF)

AlxLang* is a C++-like programming language that compiles to assembly.

It is not meant to be used in production, but rather as a learning experience in compiler design me and anyone else who wants to contribute.

* Name is a work in progress.

How it works

Front-end:

• User input is lexed into tokens.
• Tokens are parsed into an AST.

Back-end:

• AST is converted into an IR.
• IR is lowered. (TODO)
• Lowered IR is converted to MIR. (WIP)
• MIR is converted to assembly which is written to a file. (TODO)
• NASM is used to assemble the assembly file into an object file.
• ld is used to link the object file into an executable.

Currently, the back-end only supports x86-64 assembly.

I aim for the back-end to be as machine and language agnostic as possible, so in theory it should be possible to add support for other architectures and languages.

Dependencies

• CMake
• NASM
• ld
• g++
• C++20