Writing a compiler using Python, Lex, Yacc and LLVM by Alcides FonsecaI found a good post on how to build your own toy compiler using Flex, Bison and LLVM. I saw one disadvantage right in the beginning: you had to use C++. If I were just prototyping a compiler, I wouldn’t use C++ but rather a dynamic language. And last semester for the Compilers course that’s what I did. Students were assigned to build a Pascal compiler (actually a subset, but not that small) and th
