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Currently project produces string which is basically asm code and which is fed to 'GNU as'. I don't like this. This would be better to use some kind of library which has bult-in assembler. This would give some chance for this project to be portable, and would greatly improve quality of code.

This seems to be useful:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/harpy

There are tons of C language compilers. It's not best educational language to write compiler to in my opinion. My proposal is to use different programming language to compile. It would be good if the language had subset of these:

• Static memory management
• Type inference (i doubt there is imperative language with type inference)
• Pretty simple and concise semantics
• Language is LR(1) - generally, easy to parse
• Was somehow useful
• Would make sense to compile to JVM (just 4fun, but i don't know if JVM is actually nice)

There is no typechecker for the language, this is probably big missing feature.

Asm x86 is nightmare for everyone. It would be better to compile to LLVM. Which obviously is 1000 times better choice.

At the moment parser, parser text directly. It would be better to tokenize before parsing and then run parser on tokenized text.