Compilers are notoriously difficult programs to teach and understand. Most books about compilers dedicate one chapter to each progressive stage, a structure ...
Modular: The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software
Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human intent and machine execution.
Compiling knowledge, not retrieving it: a hands-on deep dive into llm-wiki-compiler
The thesis of this piece is simple and uncomfortable: the problem of making an LLM “remember” what you’ve read isn’t solved with more…
Production Is a Compiler Input - The Phoenix Architecture
When compilers surprise you — Matt Godbolt’s blog
Sometimes compilers can surprise and delight even a jaded old engineer like me
The Story of C++: The World's Most Consequential Programming Language | The Official Story
Learn C • Build Your Own Lisp
If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you.
Claude Is Not a Compiler - exe.dev blog
In early 2025, I wrote Is Claude a Compiler? At the time, my answer was: I don’t know.
Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation
As a member of the Zig core team, one of the most impactful projects I’ve been involved with is the implementation of incremental compilation into the Zig compiler. This feature allows the compiler to detect which individual functions and declarations have changed since a project was last built, recompile only that code, and directly patch the resulting bytes into the output binary, making the rebuild extremely fast.
Generic deriving of generic traversals | Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
Functional programmers have an established tradition of using traversals as a design pattern to work with recursive data structures. The technique is so prolific that a whole host of libraries have been designed to help in the task of automatically ...
Language Tour — Dependently-Typed BEAM Language
Dependently typed programming for the BEAM through one kernel-checked compiler pipeline.
A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
A range of fast modulus techniques that beat compiler output
Compile to Architecture - The Phoenix Architecture
For a long time we’ve treated frameworks as the target of software development. But if systems are meant to be regenerated and replaced safely, the real compilation target has to be the architecture itself.
R. S. Doiel, Software Engineer/Analyst — Robert's ramblings
By R. S. Doiel, 2026-02-21 (revised: 2026-03-03, epilogue added 2026-03-27)
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