The new React compiler is now in production use at Meta. Let's take a look under the hood and see how it works and what it might mean for the future of front-end development. React’s development team ...

8cc.vim is a C compiler that exists as pure Vimscript. Is it small? It sure is! How about fast? Absolutely not! Efficient? Also no. But does it work and is it neat? You betcha! Vimscript itself was ...

Have you ever thought of writing your own compiler? This is Part 2 of a series on compiler basics. Check out Part 1, where I begin by demonstrating a simple yet efficient way of reading the original ...

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Believe it or not, building a tiny compiler from scratch can be as fun as it is accessible. [James Smith] demonstrates by making a tiny compiler for an extremely simple programming language, and ...

A statement written in the source code of a program that lets the programmer instruct the compiler to perform a specific operation within the compilation phase. For example, the #include directive ...