To elaborate, I've written a number of compilers in years past. I highly recommend it as an exercise in learning about parsing, code emission, etc. Anything tha

To elaborate, I've written a number of compilers in years past. I highly recommend it as an exercise in learning about parsing, code emission, etc. Anything that gets a developer closer to understanding that process, rather than a mystery black box, is a very good thing. So I'm not trying to be a downer, just noting that it can rapidly become an extremely complex task to make an excellent compiler which includes end user expected code optimizations, informative error messages, syntax error recovery, etc.