9 Best Articles in 2020
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…
Tom Dale
Compilers are the New Frameworks
Tom Dale
1 min read · 38 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…
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…
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…
kalzumeus.com
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
kalzumeus.com
20+ min read · 85 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…
Mozilla
A crash course in just-in-time (JIT) compilers
Mozilla
10 min read · 26 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…
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…
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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Mozilla
Inspecting Just-in-Time Compiled JavaScript
Mozilla
5 min read · 12 saves · Sep 15th · The security implications of Just-in-Time (JIT) Compilers in browsers have been getting attention for the past decade and the references to more recent resources…
github.com
tcg: support JIT on Apple Silicon
github.com
Sep 21st · https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/porting_just-in-time_compilers_to_apple_silicon For < iOS 14, reverse engineered functions from libsystem_pthread.dylib is implemented to...
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27 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.
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Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml
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~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…
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How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch
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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…
v8.dev
What’s in that .wasm? Introducing: wasm-decompile
v8.dev
6 min read · 21 saves · Apr 27th · We have a growing number of compilers and other tools that generate or manipulate .wasm files, and sometimes you might want to have a…
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…
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4 min read · 19 saves · Aug 7th · in school when we learned about computers they were intricate and abstract: transistors assembled into raw logic, compilers that compiled themselves, networks of matrices…
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
blog.sigplan.org
Defunctionalization: Everybody Does It, Nobody Talks About It
blog.sigplan.org
8 min read · 10 saves · 2019-12-30 · An impressive number of transformations in both compilers and in ordinary programming are special cases of a transformation called “defunctionalization.” This post explains what…
