LLVM in 100 Seconds
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- Want to build your own programming language? LLVM is a tool for building and optimizing compilers and forms the backbone of many languages like Rust, Swift, CUDA, C, and C++.
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🔖 Topics Covered
- LLVM tutorial
- What is LLVM?
- Who created LLVM?
- How to build a programming language from scratch
- What are the main parts of a compiler?
- How do compliers work?
- Lexer vs Parser - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
this was the most intense 100 second video yet, loved it
Dude I was sweating all along, hahaha. Building your own language is definitely a bit more complicated than HTML, let’s say 😅
Not if you did computer construction and program analysis during your university. 🙂
I was high while watching it, 10/10 experience, would recommend
Does anyone knows the file icon theme fireship uses??
Yeah even when I had no audio for some reason
One of the biggest upsides to LLVM that rarely gets talked about is simply the fact that it added competition to GCC. GCC as a compiler has simply gotten much better, much faster thanks to the competition of LLVM and it's compelling licensing.
@@PefectPiePlace2 yeah also you might wanna email the author to add "rarely gets talked about except for PerfectPiePlace2, who is the first thing he mentions when talking about the subject".
The majority of compilers output an intermediate language. The advantage LLVM had over GCC is that, which GCC has an intermediate, it is kept entirely in memory between compiler phases. This means that adapting it to other languages was difficult, and thus GCC makes a poor module in a set of compiler tools. LLVM has an intermediate file format.
GCC could be made more modular internally, for example by adding a plugin API. However, this was resisted for a long time by Richard Stallman because he was afraid it would be (mis)used to hook proprietary code into GCC and thereby evade the GPL.
This allowed LLVM to get an edge in areas where GCC could not compete.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Yes, it would have been used as a back stage for a commercial compiler. I don't really see that as much of a "danger" these days, since there aren't that many commercial compiler operations. Most of the ones I know of are compiler groups within organizations, that use them for special projects and optimizations (like my company does).
LLVM is BSD (open license). So the point is basically moot now. LLVM is a more modern project, so I am sure some would say better, although I have heard different opinions on this matter. I personally don't use anyone else's back or front ends, I have always preferred to write my own.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 I thought GCC already had plugins ? Isn't the ODB compiler a GCC plugin ?
Yet another compiler compiler( yacc )?
@@mnoxman yacc does not really determine any formats (like intermediate). Its a tool.
Been reading and hearing LLVM for years without knowing what it was. Thankyou Fireship for this, now I know ✨
Dude, I just googled it and found tons of results right away
(but of course: fireship rocks, I agree)
We all have something like that. After sometime we find a missing fundamental piece and everything connects.
@@TheRealChiults You usually don't google everything you hear about
@@Coyannn I do
@@Coyannn point
In college a few years before LLVM was invented I thought how cool it would be to have a universal language that could represent any other language since they're all so similar. I remember jokingly telling my logic teacher I'd come up with it. It's not the same as LLVM but it took me way too long to find out about its existence, and it's way better than I expected (not that I'd have the technical know-how to pull that off anyway).
The question is how do we become that guy who would have the technical know-how to pull that off anyway?
@@TBadalov tell me when you find out
ideas are cheap especially in CS, it's the implementation that counts.
@@utkua agreed. It's just reassuring to know it wasn't a bad idea.
@@mandemlistening6373 read the docs
I once have to write a programming language in a course in my university. That's pretty interesting and funny. The process is exactly thru 4 parts like the video!
I think you are lying to show yourself
@@Abdurrahman98XX Dude, In some Vietnamese Top University for Computer Science we actually have `Principle of Programming Language` course to write a compiler via 4 main steps as the video demonstrated.
@@Abdurrahman98XX i had to write a compiler as well and idk whats a lie about this - heres how we did it (we reduced step 2 and 3 in the video into a single step though):
1.) lexer (source code => list of tokens)
2.) parser (list of tokens => ast)
3.) optimization (optional) (ast => ast)
4.) generator (ast => machine code)
5.) optimization (optional) (machine code => machine code)
We also did something similar, but we were in teams by 4 people. We had to make simplified copy of Golang (without goroutines and without most of standart API missing).
It was very nice project assignment, and I think every programmer should try it at least once in lifetime (doesn't matter if compiler or interpret).
@@mabed6692 which language did you use
Creating my own compile in college actually help me visualize how programming works and I believe it made me a better programmer.
Sounds like a job interview sentence
@@mathisd who knows, he might be interviewing
@@1ycx every programer is constantly being interviewed 0_0
im doing it in highschool on my own and im suffering
Its done
Always true
Great subject! Perhaps one of the most important recent software inventions. You could focus more on tools and less in libraries or programming languages, perhaps. They are great but there are so many cool tools out there
> GNU Make has entered the chat.
Possibly the single most versatile tool in my programming arsenal, purely because of its simplicity.
Recent.
@@ToadalChaos 'most versatile.., purely because of its simplicity' doesn't make sense. I'm sure there are more simple tools in your programming arsenal that are less versatile.
@@frydac GNU Make can automate tasks in almost any context. Agnostic of other tools, build systems, pipelines, languages, or frameworks. It has no complex dependencies or installation process (on linux, that is). Its simplicity is what allows it to be used for anything, hence its versatility. It is the only tool I've used in every project (almost) I've worked on since learning about it. I can't think of a simpler tool that approaches that level of versatility.
@@ToadalChaosthe web it is. http, html, css, js. i think there is more versatility than in GNU
We definitely need a full tutorial on making our own language.
1 ) Parse the text to an internal IR
2 ) Transform that to LLVM IR
3) Enjoy ;)
Perhaps you could help me build Nemesis and learn together! Let me know if you are interested!
Dude you just explained a semester's worth of my compile construction course content with actual practical examples/implementation in 2 minutes
100 seconds* xD
these comments are so dumb. You will never get the same from a youtube video as you will from an actual university course
@@aurelia8028 you will never get the same from an university course as you will from just sitting down with pure passion and curiosity, forgetting time.
that is only true way of learning. this video may spark that. a uni course is mandatory and will have the opposite effect.
check yourself.
Always insane to see how one single guy invented some really important piece of technology we all use but no one has heard of
More insane that billion dollar companies ride on the back of this software and he's not driving a Lamborghini and drinking Mei Tai's by his Olympic size swimming pool at his Malibu summer house
Chris Lattner workee at Apple for a spell (maybe he still is)
he was on the Lex Fridman podcast iirc
Same with Lua language.
He is not alone. there are thousands of people contributing on LLVM.
He also created the Swift language while at Apple. Then he went to Tesla, then Google, then SiFive, and now he has started his own company Modular AI. Most of the developer community has definitely heard of him.
Love how you're breaking the comfort zone from web-related stuff!!!!
As Wasm becomes more mainstream, all this will become "web-related stuff."
@@PefectPiePlace2 I hope that changes with the next generation of web devs
@@swattalks7624 mechanics can't just know how to drive cars, they have to know how to fix it too, just using and not knowing what or why, you're just being a simple user, you're a programmer, not a user, you have to have control over the machine, not the other way around, you don't become a chef knowing how to cook cup noodles, you don't become a mechanic knowing how to change oil (English is not my mother tongue, sorry for any spelling mistakes)
@@swattalks7624 mechanics just fix cars, programmers make and fix programs
@@heraclitoqsaldanha6133 it were you who made such a stupid comparison in the first place. How many Logic classes have you slept through?
This is one of those few videos of Fireship, where you don't understand anything about the code he is writing, but you still watch it till the end because this is FIRESHIP 🔥
You don't understand anything because you're a web developer 😂. Web developers just use a bunch of libraries and isn't real programming, software engineers💪are the smart ones. That's why you don't understand you webdev, you're not an engineer.
Average webdev: College is USELESS
Average software engineer: got a degree in a 4-year university
Gatekeeping so hard!
@@steve4718 You gotta be a Jew to have that much pride.
Yet your name is @@steve4718 and you have a Clash of Clans profile picture. Starting to believe you invent a life for yourself?
@@steve4718 Tell me you are trolling
1:08 JeffScript looks very promising
nice original function keyword you got there, mr. "fu {...} ck"
Haha missed the part that it's called JeffScript 😂😂
i asked an ai to make a programming language it came up with "simpscript"
Literally my entire compiler capstone course in 100 seconds. Love it!
Took a course this year at UBC diving deep into LLVM and writing LLVM compiler passes to perform static analysis to find bugs and errors in programs. Definitely one of those undergrad courses that I felt privileged to take since it is rarely taught at most universities. This prof was at UIUC when work was being done on LLVM and is a real OG. This was the first time he delivered this course. Not sure if any course materials are available online but the course is CPEN400P.
This steam of content is just insane fair play man
It is mind blowing that a person can create a tool that is used in like almost all languages.
Could you make a video about caches?
Like the L1 - L3 caches and how it affects speed and how it differs from main ram?
L1, L2, L2 cache is located in the cpu albeit in much smaller sizes than the main ram. Expect much higher speeds though
smaller level cache -> closer to cpu -> faster access
Probably better to make a video about the memory hierachy
@Nicholas Needham ooh yeah
@Nicholas Needham Recommend any specific ones?
This channel is the best to learn new things for brief introduction. Thanks a lot and well done!
I think I requested this under another video, but I'd love to see a "Laravel in 100 Seconds". Love your Content :)
+1 for Laravel. It's the nicest framework ever
@@kaylaroxx Laravel isn't PHP kek.
The built-in tools provide abstractions over almost all of the disgusting PHP parts. It's very pleasant to work with an the ORM is the best I've seen.
@@kaylaroxx Raw PHP is garbage but working with Laravel is a breeze. I mostly prefer Laravel over JS frameworks on my project.
@@kaylaroxx your mom
@@kaylaroxx yikes, at my job we always use the latest and greatest.
Oh hey, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon toolkit made it's debut on "in 100 seconds"!
I know, very dead meme x) Still, it is an absolutely essential piece of software nowadays. The only thing that I have always wondered is, if it was possible to build libllvm and libclang as shared libs and link the implementations for Rust, Go, Swift, etc. to it to basically build a do-it-all toolchain. That'd be kinda epic and would make for a lovely modern build-essentials!
Also, fun fact! LLVM is used in the PS3 emulator RPCS3 as a JIT method. It is effectively used to "re-compile" parts of the emulated game. If I am not mistaken, it takes care of the PPU code, whilst SPU shaders and alike are comverted beforehand so they can be just loaded in.
why do weird things show up when I google your username
what the fuck is furryfinity
@@paulmccartney2327 ur so strange
I was trying to learn about llvm literally yesterday. Great timing!
You basically summarized the compilers course I took this quarter. Nice!
Last week i did the final examen for the subject Programming Language Development in my degree. We used ANTLR for the Lexer and Parser, i recommend it to anyone that do not really want to spend time implementing a Lexer and Parser by hand.
Interesting I used GNU Flex and Bison while at college. Does ANTLR do both lexing and parsing?
@@AlexanderSuraphel yes, you just have to define a grammar and ANTLR generates a Lexer and Parser
@@martinbeltrandiaz Thanks I'll try it out
A video on Vulkan would be pretty dope. I love your content, cheers.
Very cool topic. I would love to see a follow-up talk on the anatomy of the Language Server Protocol, and how a person could get that good good syntax highlighting for their custom language in VS Code.
Wow, thats a pretty good recap of my Compilers course almost 4 years ago while undergrad!!
Your 100 Second videos are awesome.
Thanks, just created my first language and compiler while watching this video. Quality tutorial
lol
Bruh
I just made a compliler for js and pythoh that can handle that can even compile all sorts of frameworks and libs..
thanks for great tut
🤠 only took 100 sec
Now let's port TypeScript to LLVM
You make my coding / programming life easier. Thanks 🙏
That’s amazing that I was able to build a whole compiler and less than 100 seconds. What an amazing video.
Probably a good idea to use flex and yacc (or similar) to generate your lexer and parser from simple grammar rules.
Great topic. Cover more lower level topics like this 🔥.
I am working on my own language at the moment, It is currently just interpreted, and if been thinking about how to create the compiler. This sounds really good.
Thanks Jeff! I can put writing a new programing language and compiler in my resume now
Great! I'll put this on my resume! Thanks!
You're basically an expert In LLVM now! I should do the same.
Video suggestion:
Glob patterns in 100 seconds
Thank you very much
I was literally watching one of your old 100 seconds video and I instantly got notification you dropped a new video 👍
I just wanted to subscribe; but I had to like first.
Great video, many thanks! LLVM was quite a mystery for me up until now
I had presentation once about LLVM and Crystal lang. I always asked myself how is Crystal compiled and why isn't Ruby compiled when they are almost same language. And once I figured it out, I was mind blown.
Why?
Dude what you exactly did you figure out ? Just curious
@@Supergecko8 Not the original author, here's what I think he was getting at:
Ruby allows for rich runtime reflection, making it difficult* to compile Ruby to efficient machine code ahead of time. Crystal imposes additional constraints on values through its type system that reduce the runtime flexibility of the language in exchange for knowing the types of all values ahead of time, meaning efficient machine code can be generated. This flexible-rigid dynamic-static tradeoff is why Crystal is compiled while Ruby generally isn't.
*Just-in-time (JIT) compilers for Ruby, like YJIT, compile Ruby to native code at runtime. JIT compilers run alongside your program, keep track of the types of values, and emit snippets of native code once types are fully known at a point (based on other heuristics too, mainly centered around whether the compilation overhead is worth it).
Damn. I should have studied computer science in college to understand all of this.
@@DK-ox7ze don't worry I did, some curriculums might teach you about compilers but I still don't know much about them. You can still learn this stuff online if it really interests you tho
I was interested and thought I might use this to make my own language. I only understood approximately 1 in 5 words in the "create the programming language" section. 😅
Dude, your presentation skills are the bomb.
Great advices here! You motivated me to start my own Tech TH-cam channel and I hope one day it will grow like yours did. Thanks a lot!
One way that LLVM C++ Improves on all previous compilers is that it gives much better diagnostics when there is a syntax error. It will actually give you something like a stack trace when you have a function with a series of macro expansions and it will show you exactly at what stage the macro produced an error. No previous compiler comes anywhere close to this.
I don't get it. Are you talking about errors when you create LLVM IR or what?
Interesting side note. LLVM is embedded into every android and ios device so it can be used to compile graphics shaders on the fly.
Perhaps also ships with all modern browsers for WebGL?
If you are reading this: God bless you man. Was looking for this exactly.
Also Merry Christmas.
Lexical and syntactical parsing can be simplified using tools like flex and bison. I had to use these to create a "compiler" that would convert a subset of the Go language to IR, and be runnable for school.
Good video as usual 🥳
This is so interesting, makes me wonder, if they all compile to the same IR, what is then the advantage of one over the other? The syntax sugar? Or is the lexical analysis bit producing better IR in the case of one language? Anyway thanks for the video! I love this channel!
I think there is no real difference outside human readability preference and the language's ecosystem. Most differences in high-level structuring are whittled down to the same dust in the IR optimization phase nowadays. Of course, the less junk you write in your high-level code, the more refined your machine code will be.
It was always in front of my eyes, and I never knew it's significance!
Man, LLVM is awesome!
Thanks a lot , Coincidentally, I downloaded LLVM-MINGW -×64 compiler today before viewing this to compile some C++ programs .
The "IR" reminds me of the "IL" that JIT languages produce when compiled
I would say it is closer to an unviersal assembly language
Yes, however IR is in SSA form and contain PHI nodes (which is not executable as-is)
Great content, easy to understand, you are the best 💪🏻
this sheesh is not easy to understand lmao
@@jardondiego Agree. I bet he didn't understand other than installing it.
@@jardondiego if u already know compiler design or about compilers, the steps he mentioned are not hard to understand. For newbies, yes . It will be hard.
Would love to see more of these fundamental computer science videos!
Nice to see some youtube coding content that isn't super casual.
LLVM is something I should play with at least one.
As someone who has already built one low-quality scripting language and who is planning on hopefully building more programming languages, I saw this video and knew I had to watch it. Great content, keep it up!
this is like a 5 minute crafts tutorial: extremly complicated and time intensive stuff done in seconds, made to look easy, cheers!
Minus the fake "crafts" that rarely work, and when they do, they are useless
What Arjix said --> 100%
Here, we end up with knowledge instead of garbage.
@@DevranUenal lol no one's becoming knowledgeable about anything in 100 seconds, sorry.
@@nateo7045 maybe you have different definitions. When I don’t know something, then look it up and get an answer/obtain knowledge, what do you call that?
@@DevranUenal I looked up the definition before I commented just in case, and it means "well-informed'. 100 seconds might introduce you to a concept, but you're going to be far from knowledgeable about it. Anyway, I'm just nitpicking.
This is crazy, I was looking for something like this just today!
thanks a lot for explaining on a high level how LLVM works
I have some questions, in all of these "100 seconds" videos that you make...how much of the stuff in the videos do you already know? And how much do you have to Google to make these videos?
@Pavel Alexandru the problem is condensing everything into 100 seconds and presenting it in a concise fashion
Hey Jeff, could you please do a video on the Nim programming language?
👑
As soon as he started making the cpp file i got ptsd from when i worked as a developer for an inhouse game engine.
Love these in 100 seconds videos!
I love the logo nod to the Green Dragon Book. (I think later editions changed the color of the dragon, but when I took Compiler Design the original book was new.)
oooomg finally
2003? Wow it feels way older, like 20 years.
Wait a minute...
Wow huge respect for this!
Chris's wife Tanya is the head of the LLVM Foundation. She's also really fucking talented, like building compilers from scratch. Suppose they're actually 'soulmates'. Chris worked at Apple for a long time and created Swift. He's just bindbogglingly talented.
And he is trying to replace Python with his new programming language Mojo.
I am learning python as my first your videos give me a better idea of what programing is and what programing languages are thank you so much!
Yo, I don't think this video is a good source for learning python as your first. Good luck.
@@elmiraguth its about his other programming language videos genius.
@@xCwieCHRISx Then why is it a comment under this video lol?
@@elmiraguth I don't think it's about his other videos specifically, but his videos in general.
"your videos give me a better idea of [...] what programing languages are".
Even if you are just writing a JIT compiled language like Python, understanding that it is still compiled is useful. Understanding how compilation happens is also useful.
@@elmiraguth I agree with both yeet and Xcwei
Jeffscript is my new favourite language - I want nothing more from a language than functions opening with fu and ending with ck.
LLVM - stands for low level virtual machine. The intermediate code generated by LLVM most likely simulates a stack machine that can then be converted into assembly by the back end. This is a similar process to Java' JVM bytecode generation.
This is awesome!
I love how you define functions in JeffScript 🤣
I was waiting for this ❤❤❤
Edit: I did not understand a single thing tho
For the past 2 days I've been thinking how I would program my own language. Nice timing.
Thank you this was great. It’d be great if you make a more in depth video about this!
This tool is harmful to productivity because of the cute dragon logo. I mean look at it!!! It's so adorable!!! You can barely take your eyes off it!
Pro Hint: google: "crafting interpreters"
You broke down llvm in 100 seconds. Absolute madness! 👏🏻
This is so good, I've come across llvm dozens of times while reading programming content and I've never had a good idea of what it actually was. This was a great video
time to make brainfuck++
this guy explained how to make a programming language in 100 seconds
i'm making my own from 3 months and i'm still on the parser
fireship is amazing
Nice, might need to check this out.
I am happy whenever fireship releases a video 🥳
Actually, a tutorial about this would be so freaking awesome!
Create a language that outputs `hello world` and does basic arithmetic `+,-,*,/`
I would so watch that and follow along.
In the mean time, watch David beazly's presentation on ply.. not llvm, but quite interesting still
That's what you do when you take a compilers course
me thinking html is hard...
wowww awesome.. thank you so much for covering llvm..!
Dude thank you so much for this one
great video! thanks for covering also more uncommon stuff
Awesome video, thanks for creating it
Went couldn't you have made this video last year when I was making a compiler? I finally understand the confusing things I did!
Thanks you Fireship for this content.
Wonderful video, thank you.
I would love to suggest a video on React 18 and the new hooks.
Another wonderful post 👏👏👏
You brought so many sleepless nights memories from computer engineering compilers course in 100seconds
Love the casual "middle-end" drop.
wow that's really awesome :o, I think create your own langage and compiler is maybe not really usefull but it's clear that by doing that we can learn a lot about the different problematic wich appear under the hood... By the way the fact that IR are an intermediate language synthax wich can be generated by different language mean that if we learn how IR work then we have a basic knowledge on many other language despite the way they all have lot of similarity.
To be honest your explaination are really really really fast and I hope you will treat this topic with more handy tutoriel where we can follow your work by doing it at the same time in order to understand but I know your channel and content have the goal to really go fast on topic. And this time i guess i will need to take a look on that and do my own research, trying to practice alone in order to understand everything in this video. I find that really interesting thank you for that awesome video
i was literally waiting for only 4 days for u to make this video. u can literally read minds
I already did this using Flex and Bison... It's pretty cool !
You should look into PLCs and do videos on structured text and ladder logic - would certainly be new territory!