Yeah, I've written stuff like this many times -- mostly producing AST then bytecode, etc. I never really wanted to call it a 'compiler' per se though that's wha

Yeah, I've written stuff like this many times -- mostly producing AST then bytecode, etc. I never really wanted to call it a 'compiler' per se though that's what it is. Because I generally stand in awe of serious optimizing compiler engineers, they have deep domain expertise that is admirable.