[tfederman]

I feel like I spend a troubling amount of time as a software developer dealing with and/or avoiding solutions that are much more complicated than the problems they're trying to solve.

[blt]

tell me about it... I've been searching for a C++ library that will encode x86 instructions from syntax that looks moderately similar to assembler code. Not a disassembler, not a JIT toolkit, not a special cross-platform IR that gets compiled to real instructions. Just an instruction encoder with a moderately pretty syntax. No luck so far.

[s_kanev]

Have you seen xed [1]? It seems to fit the bill nicely from what I understand about your requirements.

[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/pintool/docs/67...