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[โ€“] LeFantome@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have built single pass compilers that do everything in one shot without an AST. You are not going to get great error messages or optimization though.

[โ€“] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh! Okay, that's interesting to me! What was the input language? I imagine it might be a little more doable if it's closer to hardware?

I don't remember that well, but I think the object oriented stuff with dynamic dispatch was hard to deal with.