I created http://jogolang.org http://jogolang.org, mostly because I was interested in learning how compilers worked. I was also motivated by the lack of simple,

I created http://jogolang.org http://jogolang.org, mostly because I was interested in learning how compilers worked. I was also motivated by the lack of simple, type-safe, ahead-of-time-compiled programming languages for writing video games. Now the project is kind of dead, but I certainly learned a lot about parsers, code generation, optimizations, SSA, and register allocation!