#Compilers

6 articles tagged with Compilers

WasmGC in Production: Running Dart, Kotlin & Java at Near-Native Web Speeds

An in-depth compiler systems guide to WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC). We examine browser host GC integration, Flutter Web 120 FPS compilation, Kotlin Multiplatform Wasm targets, and eliminating heavy bundled garbage collectors.

9/2/202624 min read

Building a Regex Engine From Scratch to Understand Backtracking

Learn how regular expression engines evaluate patterns. Compare catastrophic NFA backtracking against Thompson's NFA state machine construction.

8/6/202626 min read

Understanding Garbage Collection by Building a Simple One

Learn memory management mechanics by building a Mark-and-Sweep Garbage Collector in TypeScript. Compare Reference Counting against Mark-and-Sweep.

8/6/202628 min read

Writing a Toy Programming Language: Lexer, Parser, Interpreter

Learn how programming languages work by building a complete tree-walk interpreter in TypeScript: Lexical Analysis, AST Parsing, and Environment Evaluation.

8/6/202628 min read

What 'Superhuman Coder by 2027' Would Actually Require, Technically

Technical roadmap for 2027 AI coding. What 10M token working memory, zero-shot AST refactoring, dynamic physical execution sandboxes, and verification loops require.

8/1/202625 min read

Zig for Systems Programming: A Rust Developer's First Impressions

Ditching the borrow checker for explicit allocators? A Rust developer shares first impressions of Zig, comparing compile-time reflection (comptime), manual memory control, C interop, and error handling.

8/1/202621 min read