This language was inspired by a language called Tranquility that was written by Brian L. Stuart. The structure of the compiler was based off of the structure of the rust compiler.

In this section, I will describe the structure of the compiler.

• desolationc This crate is essentially the entry point for the desolation compiler.
• desolationc_tokens This crate contains the definitions of the tokens used by the lexer and ast. I decided to make the tokens common; I do not know if this will come to bite me in the butt.
• desolationc_lexer This crate contains the logic for reading a source file and producing a tokenstream.
• desolationc_ast This crate contains the abstract syntax tree. This tree is built from the tokens in the tokens crate and constructed from the token stream in the lexer crate. This crate does not actually produce the ast. That is the purpose of the parser.
• desolationc_parser This crate converts a token stream into an abstract syntax tree.