C had implementations, then there was a standard, then there were more implementations. At present we have GCC and clang as the preeminent "industrial strength" compilers and presumably MSVC is somewhere in the neighborhood of normal. A little curiosity will lead you to more recently commenced proje...
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Stories related to "tell me of weird, obscure, or proprietary C compilers and environments past and present" across the full archive.
C had implementations, then there was a standard, then there were more implementations. At present we have GCC and clang as the preeminent "industrial strength" compilers and presumably MSVC is somewhere in the neighborhood of normal. A little curiosity will lead you to more recently commenced proje...
In-depth article about using [sweet.js](https://github.com/mozilla/sweet.js), a macro library for Javascript.
Would it be useful to folks to have a compilers tag? I'm certainly interested in reading articles about compilers but their harder to find when scattered across different languages or in the catch-all compsci tag.
Here's the [original suggestion for this tag](https://lobste.rs/s/hpsyea/why_is_it_...
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-a4.pdf
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-4x3.pdf
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/audio.ogg
flrc is newly open sourced by Intel
The Functional Language Research Compiler (FLRC) was designed to be a general compiler framework for functional languages. The only supported compiler that is being released is a Haskell Research Compiler (HRC).
The newly available github repository also lin...
Tutorial on metacompilers using META II: The first meta-compiler from 1964
(bayfronttechnologies.com)