Introduction to Compilers and Language Design

madrajib•about 2 hours ago

Love such topics and articles in midst of AI topics/noise.

giancarlostoro•8 minutes ago

The best part of the blind AI hatred is you can call literally anything AI slop without presenting evidence and the anti-slop loyalists will hate it without any evidence.

I do value both correct high quality AI usage and non-AI works, would be nice if we could have a bar for the AI stuff that makes sense instead of dismissing peoples work blindly.

solumunus•5 minutes ago

I guarantee half the folk commenting “ai slop” on people’s projects are folk who never read people’s code even before AI. Now they get to dismiss it without providing any specifics and feel superior.

shuyang•about 1 hour ago

Took Dr. Thain's compilers class in college! It was the best. He's an excellent instructor, and the course project made me build a working C-style compiler step by step. I think the sample project here is pretty much the project we did; highly recommend following through the entire thing!

attila-lendvai•34 minutes ago

it wanders within a tight circle around C and its idiosyncrasies.

jdw64•about 1 hour ago

Sometimes I see people who design languages and build compilers, and I find them truly amazing. I once tried making a language myself because I was curious, but it was so difficult that I just settled for a simple C backend. The people contributing to LLVM probably know everything down to assembly generation. they're truly incredible.

t-3•about 1 hour ago

Assembly generation is actually pretty simple, it's optimizing everything that's difficult. Writing an assembler is a great way to get acquainted with compiler construction, because you don't need to think about optimization and types and the other features that make high level languages complicated aren't needed.

jdw64•about 1 hour ago

I keep saying 'someday...' and never actually doing it because of making a living, but this time I think I should try a few small examples

dixtel•5 minutes ago

I fell you, My dream is to build my own compiler for WASM to use it later for my own pet projects. But after 9-5 job I'm exhusted and only able to work for max 1 hour.

But I still have hope that I will make it. Maybe coding agent will help me but I dont like the idea that I need help from AI to build this. I want to create compilers through my own hands.

Anyway, I hope you will make it anyway. :)

Introduction to Compilers and Language Design

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