Who is the author?

I am Greg Leclercq, a software engineer who is fascinated by hardware architectures, operating systems, compilers, programming languages, and distributed systems.

I work as a backend and infrastructure engineer.

Note: I would love to see people contribute to this project. Please add yourself to this page as a contributor when it happens :).

Why LLVM?

LLVM is becoming ubiquituous in compilers. It is the backend of the clang C++ compiler and recent languages such as Rust, Julia and Swift use it. What makes LLVM so interesting is the infrastructure it provides to generate code. You can benefit from Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation, a debugguer, interoperability between languages for example.

Why this tutorial?

I started to follow the original LLVM Tutorial in C++ and found it very practical. It was for me a way to learn more about LLVM and to write a project in C++. As I was versed into modern C++ I could prevent myself from trying to use features from the C++11 and C++14 standards. I also prefered putting code in several modules. Then I was missing tests and a build system. I finally decided to write this project to conciliate the learning of LLVM, writing a compiler, and practicing C++.