projects and friends thread

Post what you're working on and chat and help out others.

I'm making my frst real compiler, one that actually outputs assembly rather than targetting another high level language. It's just going to be a simple scheme compiler. I started on it today, wrote a parser/read and tested it on its own source code.

What are you all making?

I'm always working on like 10 different things at the same time, because I have a hard time using things made by anyone else. Since I use C, most of the time I can write everything I need from scratch, and that's what ends up happening.

I was writing an command line application for Omegle, and I wrote my own http library for it (surprisingly simple, the hardest part was handling chunk encoding), but Omegle implements the chat with JSON, so I had to write a JSON parser, and then I realized I needed something curses-like, but I hate curses and it wasn't sufficient for what I wanted, so I wrote my own curses library using XTerm Control Sequences, and then because of that I also need to write my own input library using termios and ioctl for the framebuffer...

A project that could have taken a few days is taking ages because short of writing the OS and compiler itself I'm writing everything from zero.