compilers — my Raindrop.io articles

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Brian Piercy by Brian Piercy
The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software
23 Feb 2026
simonwillison.net

On February 5th Anthropic's Nicholas Carlini wrote about a project to use parallel Claudes to build a C compiler on top of the brand new Opus 4.6 Chris Lattner (Swift, …

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An Introduction to Ruby Parsing with Prism | AppSignal Blog
7 Jan 2026
blog.appsignal.com

Prism is here to change our lives as Ruby developers: find out how.

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ZJIT has been merged into Ruby
14 May 2025
railsatscale.com

ZJIT has been merged into upstream Ruby. Learn about its architecture!

Hacker News
13 Mar 2023
cs.cornell.edu
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Hacker News
27 Nov 2022
citw.dev

In this tutorial we'll create a Javascript compiler from scratch. We'll learn about the basic building blocks of compilers and deeply understand every single line of code we write.

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JIT Compilers for Ruby and Rails: An Overview
8 Sep 2022
blog.appsignal.com

Find out about the different JIT compilers for Ruby — YJIT, MJIT, and TenderJIT — and their benefits.

Introduction to Compilers and Language Design
20 May 2022
www3.nd.edu
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A friendly introduction to machine learning compilers and optimizers
3 Oct 2021
huyenchip.com

[Twitter thread, Hacker News discussion]

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools - Wikipedia
3 Nov 2020
en.wikipedia.org

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools is a computer science textbook by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman about compiler construction for programming languages. First published in 1986, it is widely regarded as the classic definitive compiler technology text.

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Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 18: Executing Procedure Calls
9 Mar 2020
ruslanspivak.com

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. ― Maya Angelou