My new Assembly syntax is making progress towards being self-hosted. It can now create ELF binaries with data, opcodes and immediate/displacement operands. What's left:

a) Packing mod/reg/rm operands, and scale/index/base operands into single bytes. (ETA: 2 days)

b) Handling string literals. (ETA: 1 week)

c) Support for labels. (ETA: ???. 3 months, if past history is any guide.)

Then: Goodbye C! Goodbye dependencies I don't understand! Hello, true collaboration.

https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/d0d0fdb37/subx/Readme.md

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