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Please add questions here and people who contribute to Falcon will be happy to try to answer them.
Q: What is a lexer?
A: A lexer turns source code into tokens.
Q: What is a parser?
A: A parser turns tokens into an abstract syntax tree.
Q: What is a code generator?
A: A code generator turns an abstract syntax tree into bytecode.
Q: What is a semantic checker?
A: A semantic checker finds problems in the source code.
Q: What is an example of how Falcon generates better bytecode than the legacy compiler?
Falcon does both constant propogation and inlining.