56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up

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betprogramming languageLLVMDOOMcompilerself-hostingmemory management

Author: ghuntley

Date: 7/16/2026

Article Summary:

The author built a small programming language called "bet" as a contained experiment, compiling to native code through LLVM, managing its own memory, and self-hosting, with the goal of running DOOM in full.