#Compiler

Writing at LWN.net, jzb reports that CPython’s experimental just-in-time compiler is being removed. The JIT landed in CPython in 2024 for the 3.13 release. In June, the Python steering council paused work on the JIT in CPython’s main branch.…

For years, building a modern TypeScript project felt like combining too many tools just to run simple code. You needed one tool to check…

For years I've used PHP-CS-Fixer on both personal and commercial projects. I like its ruleset, but I also like how fast Mago is. So when I started working on a PHP compiler, I decided to build a formatter that follows PHP-CS-Fixer's rules and runs at a…

The wall every Rust beginner hits If you have learned Rust, you remember the first time...

Introduction: The Code Smell Dilemma A developer’s journey into compiler design took an...

Deploying a trained neural network involves more than translating each operator into a GPU kernel. It is a compilation problem with many legitimate answers.

Goose is a memory-safe systems language that compiles to one C file. It is not the AI agent, and it is not a Flisk language flag.

Cloudflare and VoidZero are incubating tsrs, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler, inside the Oxc toolchain and say early benchmarks show it running up to 8x faster than TypeScript 7.0.

SDCC is a retargettable, optimizing Standard C (ANSI C89, ISO C99, ISO C11, ISO C23) compiler suite that targets the Intel MCS51 based microprocessors (8031, 8032, 8051, 8052, etc.), Maxim (formerly Dallas) DS80C390 variants, Freescale (formerly Motorola)…

A function's return type is supposed to indicate the kind of data that it produces. Rust's 'n [...]

Build a copy-and-patch JIT compiler in Rust, generate ARM64 machine code, and benchmark it against an interpreter and handwritten implementation.

The Apache 2.0 license is the gold standard for programming languages and compilers, because it provides great flexibility to be used in all sorts of applications.…

Compilers have a hard time optimizing floating point math. Rust has a new API to fix this.

Jolt is a Clojure implementation on Scheme — Chez natively, Gambit for JavaScript. Self-hosted compiler, Clojure-compatible standard library, no JVM.

Hot path optimization: unsafe pointer arithmetic to eliminate bound checks the Go compiler can't remove, given you can prove they are truly unnecessary.

A cross-platform ahead-of-time Lua compiler and runtime, using C++20 backend - samyeyo/clx

The following article appeared (in German) on the German UUG net andSubNet. It tells a short history of Unix in the German Democratic Republic.