Perfect. The test harness is doing exactly what it's supposed to do: catching the fact that our JS port hasn't actually done the work yet. Your idea to design this to support targeting both C and JS is excellent architectural foresight. In compiler design, this means we must strictly separate the **Frontend** (Lexing & Parsing into an Abstract Syntax Tree / AST) from the **Backend** (Emitting code). Instead of letting the parser build C strings directly (as the original code does with `output_statements` and `output_token`), our JS parser will construct a pure AST object. We will then pass that AST to a dedicated `CodeGenerator` class. Later, creating a JS target will be as simple as writing a `JSCodeGenerator` class that implements the same interface. Here is the blueprint for Phase 2. We will add the `scan_number` utility to capture integer/float literals, and we will introduce the `CCodeGenerator` to start mimicking the exact output. ### 1. Update `GDCompiler` with the Number Scanner ``` ### 2. Implement the Backend (Code Generator) ``` ### 3. Wire them together in `compile()` Finally, update the `compile()` method inside `GDCompiler` to start using the pipeline. Right now, we will simulate the tokenizer loop just enough to grab the numbers out of the string-stripped buffer. ``` If you run `node harness.js tests/string.c` now, look at the JS output block in the terminal. You should see it successfully generating a `gd_allocate_vars` C function packed with exactly the same `_tmp_string` and `_tmp_int` allocations as the benchmark binary! Let me know what the terminal spits out.