Readit News- Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38182461
- Write your own retro compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591662
- Compiling a Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216904
- Writing a C Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227716
- Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593088
- Working through 'Writing a C Compiler' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541565
- Build a Compiler in Five Projects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031220
Personally I found Crafting Interpreters to be a terrific introduction to the key concepts: https://craftinginterpreters.com
(But I'm just a kibitzer, I've never written anything more serious than a DSL in Perl.)
> the greatest engineering team I've ever seen
How do these two things reconcile in your opinion? In my view , doing something quickly is the easy part , good engineering is only needed exactly when you want things to be maintainable and scalable, so the assertions above don’t really make much sense to me.
* You probably aren't going to need it, so putting the effort into scaling means slowing down your delivery of the very features that would make customers want your solution.
* It typically slows down performance of individual features.
* It definitely significant increases the complexity of your solution (and probably the user-facing tooling as well).
* It is difficult to achieve until you have the live traffic to test your approach.
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40769362 (2024, 169 comments)
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846902 (2022, 123 comments)
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22778988 (2020, 90 comments)
I really like Tesla's approach to door handles - it's clean, polished, and gives a fine and smooth look. But was surprised to learn that China will ban them beginning next year. Other countries might follow suit as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-hidden-door-handles-cars-...
Either people on that level rarely write anything on their own and have completely forgotten how to construct proper sentences or maybe that just how they communicate. Sort of language internal to the group.
* The reporter lied.
* The reporter forgot.
* Apple devices share fingerprint matching details and another device had her details (this is supposed to be impossible, and I have no reason to believe it isn't).
* The government hacked the computer such that it would unlock this way (probably impossible as well).
* The fingerprint security is much worse than years of evidence suggests.
Mainly it was buried at the very end of the article, and I thought it worth mentioning here in case people missed it.
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