Modernizing hlang with the nguh compiler
Sat Dec 31 2022
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This stream was the last stream of 2022 and focused on modernizing the hlang compiler. In this stream I reverse-engineered how WebAssembly modules work and wrote my own compiler for a trivial esoteric programming language named h. The existing compiler relied on legacy features of WebAssembly tools that don't work anymore.
This stream covers the following topics:
- Reverse-engineering the WebAssembly module format based on the specification and other reverse-engineering tools
- Adapting an existing compiler to output WebAssembly directly
- Deploying a new service to my NixOS machines in the cloud
- Building a Nix flake and custom NixOS module to build and deploy the new hlang website
- Terraform DNS config
- Writing the writeup on the new compiler
Facts and circumstances may have changed since publication. Please contact me before jumping to conclusions if something seems wrong or unclear.
Tags: hlang, go, wasm, philosophy, devops, terraform, aws, route53, nixos