9 Best Articles in 2021
nicoleorchard.com
An Intro to Compilers
nicoleorchard.com
7 min read · 85 saves · From 2017 · August 13, 2017 tl;dr: Learning new meanings for front-end and back-end. A compiler is just a program that translates other programs. Traditional compilers translate source code into executable…
Tom Dale
Compilers are the New Frameworks
Tom Dale
1 min read · 39 saves · From 2017 · My current "investment thesis" is that what we call web frameworks are transforming from runtime libraries into optimizing compilers. When it comes to eking performance out of hand-authored JavaScript…
medium.com
How to be* a compiler — make a compiler with JavaScript
medium.com
6 min read · 73 saves · From 2016 · *Yes! you should be a compiler. It’s awesome.
jlongster.com
Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers! Make Macros Instead
jlongster.com
7 min read · 16 saves · From 2018 · The past several years have been kind to JavaScript. What was once a mediocre language plagued with political stagnation is now thriving with an incredible platform, a massive and passionate…
kalzumeus.com
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
kalzumeus.com
20+ min read · 93 saves · From 2014 · If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn't involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don't teach th...
kalzumeus.com
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
kalzumeus.com
20+ min read · 88 saves · From 2011 · If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them…
Mozilla
A crash course in just-in-time (JIT) compilers
Mozilla
10 min read · 29 saves · From 2017 · This is the second part in a series on WebAssembly and what makes it fast. If you haven’t read the others, we recommend starting from ...
lisperator.net
How to implement a programming language in JavaScript
lisperator.net
1 min read · 23 saves · From 2016 · This is a tutorial on how to implement a programming language. If you ever wrote an interpreter or a compiler, then there is probably nothing new for you here. But, if you're using regexps to “parse”…
medium.com
How do I get started with V8 development?
medium.com
4 min read · 21 saves · From 2017 · Are you interested in understanding more about compilers, virtual machines, JavaScript engines, and maybe even want to contribute to V8? …
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quuxplusone.github.io
Fun with conversion-operator name lookup
quuxplusone.github.io
1 min read · 17 saves · Jan 13th · As of this writing (but perhaps not for very much longer!) the four mainstream compilers on Godbolt Compiler Explorer give four different answers for this simple C++ program:
jesse squires 🏴
Resources for learning about compilers and LLVM
jesse squires 🏴
1 min read · 2020-12-28 · Today I cleaned up my various projects and todo’s in OmniFocus. I am always collecting links and resources for potential project ideas, or for general learning. Sometimes, however, it is best to…
The Wall Street Journal
Blacklisted Chinese Telecoms Carriers Cut From Stock Indexes
The Wall Street Journal
1 min read · Jan 8th · Shares in China’s three major telecommunications companies dropped in Hong Kong, after index compilers said they would remove the stocks from their benchmarks due to a U.S. ban.
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thume.ca
Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml
thume.ca
~17 min read · 19 saves · 2019-04-29 · During my final term at UWaterloo I took the CS444 compilers class with a project to write a compiler from a substantial subset of Java to x86, in teams of up to three people with a language of the…
Gizmodo
How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch
Gizmodo
7 min read · 16 saves · From 2017 · To celebrate the 50th anniversary of BASIC, Steve Wozniak has written some memories about his first experiences with this popular language—and how he created his own BASIC from scratch for the Apple I and Apple II computers. An incredible feat. Enjoy!—JD
prepros.io
Prepros :: Compile Less, Sass, CoffeeScript and much more with live browser refreshing.
prepros.io
29 saves · From 2015 · Trial includes all Prepros features.Prepros can compile almost all preprocessing languages like Sass, Less, Stylus, Cssnext, Jade/Pug, Markdown, Slim, Coffeescript etc.
pycnocline.substack.com
tech brain
pycnocline.substack.com
4 min read · 20 saves · 2020-08-07 · in school when we learned about computers they were intricate and abstract: transistors assembled into raw logic, compilers that compiled themselves, networks of matrices that found patterns in…
v8.dev
What’s in that .wasm? Introducing: wasm-decompile
v8.dev
6 min read · 21 saves · 2020-04-27 · We have a growing number of compilers and other tools that generate or manipulate .wasm files, and sometimes you might want to have a look inside. Maybe you’re a developer of such a tool, or more…
quuxplusone.github.io
Fun with conversion-operator name lookup
quuxplusone.github.io
1 min read · 17 saves · Jan 13th · As of this writing (but perhaps not for very much longer!) the four mainstream compilers on Godbolt Compiler Explorer give four different answers for this simple C++ program:
microsoft.com
Foundations of Data Science
microsoft.com
1 min read · 15 saves · 2019-05-15 · Computer science as an academic discipline began in the 1960s. Emphasis was on programming languages, compilers, operating systems, and the mathematical theory that supported these areas. Courses in…
github.com
eanplatter/enclave: A simpler way to compile React applications
github.com
12 saves · From 2016 · A simpler way to compile React applications http://enclave.js.org
