Jack Compiler
This is a compiler front-end for the Jack programming language. The Jack programming language is a simple object-based language, specified in the amazing book The Elements of Computing Systems.
Here is a Hello World program in Jack:
class Main {
function void main() {
do Output.printString("Hello world!");
do Output.println();
return;
}
}
The compiler front-end compiles Jack code into VM code that is then executed on a virtual machine.
Usage
Compile the Jack compiler:
cargo build --release
Compile a Jack file:
jack_compiler <INPUT_FILE>.jack
Compile a directory of Jack files:
jack_compiler <INPUT_DIR>
Documentation
To read the documentation, open the file doc/jack_compiler/index.html in a browser.
Tests
The tests compare the outputs of each component (parser, tokenizer, VM writer) to the outputs of the reference implementation.
Running all tests:
cargo test