I’m going to depart from my habit of posting predominantly technical stuff here, and write a bit about some issues that I find very important on a personal level. This is going to be more for my own benefit than anything else, but I truly hope that the exploration is helpful to someone out th…

It’s very common to hear engineers talking about "code reuse" - particularly in a positive light. We love to say that we’ll make our designs "reusable". Most of the time the meaning of this is pretty well understood; someday, we want our code to be able to be applied to some different use cas…

This weekend marks a major milestone for the development of the Epoch programming language. For the first time, Windows debuggers such as Visual Studio and WinDbg can perform source-level debugging on Epoch programs.

In a nutshell, this means that the comfortable modern development feature…

Recently I’ve been working on a rather difficult task, namely creating PDB debug database files from the Epoch Language compiler toolchain.

This is difficult in part because the format of PDB files is generally not well-understood, and is certainly poorly documented. I can’t go much furthe…

Recently IaEUR(TM)ve been working on a rather difficult task, namely creating PDB debug database files from the href="https://github.com/apoch/epoch-language">E…

Early this morning, Epoch achieved a minor success in the debugging department. I was able to generate a working PDB file with symbols for a small test program, run the program in Visual Studio and WinDbg, and step through the disassembly.

Along the way, the current Epoch function was correctl…

Early this morning, Epoch achieved a minor success in the debugging department. I was able to generate a working PDB file with symbols for a small test program, run the program in Visual Studio and WinDbg, and step through the disassembly.

Along the…

My recent adventures in self-hosting the 64-bit Epoch compiler have led me to a significant conclusion: it isn’t worth trying to self-host a compiler when you can’t debug the target language.

A much better use of my time would be to improve the languishing PDB generation experiment and get the…

My recent adventures in self-hosting the 64-bit Epoch compiler have led me to a significant conclusion: it isnaEUR(TM)t worth trying to self-host a compiler when you canaEUR(TM)t debug the target language.

A much better use of my time would be to improve the Read more in The Bag of Holding

Just a short while ago, the first working 64-bit compiler for Epoch was produced!

Well, "working" might be a minor stretch; it launches, prints a simple text banner message, and then exits cleanly. But that represents a lot of operational code by itself.

• The 32-bit compiler is able to lex,…