After a week of struggling with getting the lua api for Desmume to work (Turns out you need a specific version of lua, which is not conveyed anywhere whatsoever), finally got it to work and wrote a quick benchmarking tool!
Yes unfortunately the clock resolution is seconds
Thanks for pushing me to look into this lua thing @tim4242

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A lot of time later, I finally have a hello world program running on my NDS (8x8 Bitmap font)
The program is 142 lines of code total.

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Finally got something visual to show for the project I've been working on for the past three to four months.

• Custom language compiling to arm assembly
• Packed in a .nds file getting loaded on an nds emulator (As well as my DSi)
• Displaying a blue screen via a bitmap

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Finally finished (At least for now) my mini-compiler frontend. https://github.com/PixelRifts/mini-frontend
Took 2 months, we'll see if it was worth it.

Goal of this project was NOT to make yet another language, it was to make a compiler frontend so that I can dive into compiler backends. I'm excited for that to be honest, much of this was just elbow grease, which I am glad to be done with (cough typechecker cough)

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