LLVM has a great tutorial (Kaleidoscope): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;llvm.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;tutorial&#x2F;</a><p>It walks you through basic expression generation, control flow, memory, etc. for a simple language. The learning curve isn&#x27;t zero, to be sure, but I think the time saved by being able to work with IR as a tree instead of as a flat series of bytes makes it easily worth it.