Rachit Nigam personal blog
Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler. I know you wanted a “simple prototype” that would just add that one feature to your programming model. You said that “SSA is an overkill” and “it’s just way too much infrastructure to maintain for a simple task” and yet, six months later, you have pile of…
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- HN comments
- 312
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- 2
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- 3 commenters
Software EngineeringProgramming Languages2024
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2024 | Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022) by azhenley | 380 | 221 |
| Aug 17, 2023 | I am afraid to inform you that you have built a compiler (2022) by mutant_glofish | 262 | 91 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Aug 2023 to Mar 2025.
Most recent:
- whattheheckheck · Mar 23, 2025
- samsquire · Jan 28, 2024
- samsquire · Sep 16, 2023
- jraph · Aug 18, 2023
