jauhien/iron-kaleidoscope resource

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A Rust-language port of the official LLVM Kaleidoscope tutorial, walking through building a lexer, parser, AST, LLVM IR code generation, optimizer, and JIT compiler for a small toy language. The README states the code is completely outdated and nothing currently works.

Use cases

• learn how to build a compiler with LLVM in Rust
• follow the LLVM Kaleidoscope tutorial in Rust
• understand LLVM IR code generation from an AST
• learn how to implement a JIT compiler with MCJIT
• study lexer and recursive descent parser implementation
• learn compiler basics by building a toy language

When to choose

• you want a Rust-flavored walkthrough of the classic LLVM Kaleidoscope tutorial
• you learn best from chapter-by-chapter compiler construction examples
• you want to see how LLVM bindings are used from Rust

When to avoid

• you need working, up-to-date code - the README says nothing works and the Rust code is outdated
• you want a maintained library or production compiler toolchain
• you need the full tutorial beyond chapter 7 (mutable variables)

Facets

learning-resource · maturity abandoned

compiler interpreter parser documentation compilers programming-languages tutorials education rust cpp cross-platform llvm kaleidoscope jit code-generation tutorial rust

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