Creating the Bolt Compiler: Part 1May 10, 20207 min readSeries: Creating the Bolt CompilerPart 1: How I wrote my own "proper" programming languageThe diagram above is the compiler for the language Bolt we’ll be building. What do all the stages mean? I have to learn OCaml and C++? Wait I haven’t even heard of OCaml…Don’t worry. When I started this project 6 months ago, I had never built a compiler, nor had I used OCaml or C++ in any serious project. I’ll explain everything in due course.In this s...