Well, not too long ago I managed to get the first ‘Hello World’ ek9 application working on the Java JVM. I was very pleased. This work on generating the Intermediate Representation (IR) and the JVM bytecode has progresssed much further. It now includ...
Five Years Later Having spent quite a bit of time defining the EK9 language, I started writing the compiler in around 2020. Now today on the 2nd of Ocober 2025, I have ‘hello world’ done from end to end. At the moment just running on a Java VM, but i...
Creating EK9 Standard Lib API From my other blog posts, you’ll be able to see I’ve been focussed on the ‘front-end’ of the compiler for several years. I’m now looking to start work on the Intermediate Representation and also the ‘back-end’. With this...
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