Modernizing hlang with the nguh compiler

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This stream was the last stream of 2022 and focused on modernizing the hlang compiler. In this stream I reverse-engineered how WebAssembly modules work and wrote my own compiler for a trivial esoteric programming language named h. The existing compiler relied on legacy features of WebAssembly tools that don't work anymore.

This stream covers the following topics:

• Reverse-engineering the WebAssembly module format based on the specification and other reverse-engineering tools
• Adapting an existing compiler to output WebAssembly directly
• Deploying a new service to my NixOS machines in the cloud
• Building a Nix flake and custom NixOS module to build and deploy the new hlang website
• Terraform DNS config
• Writing the writeup on the new compiler

Tags: hlang go wasm philosophy devops terraform aws route53 nixos