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
#Compilers
5 articles tagged with Compilers
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