The article describes a project that uses the Zig programming language and QBE compiler backend to build an overengineered calculator. It covers the process of defining a grammar for arithmetic expressions with proper operator precedence and generating native machine code.
Background
The author wanted to learn how to translate source code to native machine code after studying interpreter and bytecode compiler concepts from existing books. QBE was chosen as a lightweight backend that provides good performance with minimal code.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Jul 29, 2026 at 09:22 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10