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> To ease the usage of the compiler as a library and later on bootstrapping, it is written in C11 with no external libraries apart from LibC and my custom utility library. A large portion of the coding is recorded and posted as videos on YouTube.

And the relevant Youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvdK1vRmp8wMzH4w_8sQ3...

This language looks wonderful. The syntax is clear and looks to be a language I've always dreamed about.

The syntax seems similar to Odin Lang, another language I hope gets more people to help develop on.

So in this context "assembly" means "drive compilation-toolchain components in a build system" and not "mnemonic code used to symbolize machine instructions"?

What relation does it have to assembly? From briefly looking at it, it seems none, but the name suggests otherwise.

Maybe assembly here is being referred to the IR. Looks a tad misleading, but great work nevertheless.

Here is the Fizz Buzz example from the screenshots: https://github.com/grassator/mass/blob/master/fixtures/fizz_...

It is great to see more activity in the compiler IR space.

Here is another effort: https://github.com/robertmuth/Cwerg

Is it just me or is there nothing to see/download currenty?

https://github.com/grassator/mass

See the Youtube playlist I linked in another comment. Plus the author has several blog posts and the code is in the Github repository. There is plenty to see and read, but it is true that he hasn't seemed to have made any releases yet, but it is WIP, so...

This looks like a massive (no pun intended) undertaking.

Will be keeping an eye on this.

You should at least mention llvm IR and describe how it differs. To me it does seem a lot nicer than llvm ir, is this intended to be mostly generated and consumed by compilers, or is it meant to be human read and written?

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