Yukihiro Matsumoto - better known as Matz - is building Spinel, a native compiler for Ruby, with help from Anthropic's Claude Code. Spinel, which is on GitHub under the MIT license, works by parsing ...

In 1952, Grace Hopper sat in front of a UNIVAC I and got tired of copying subroutine addresses by hand. Programmers at the time wrote raw machine code, looked up memory locations from a paper library, ...

Cursor had said last month that it had managed to build a web browser autonomously with AI agents alone. Anthropic seems to have done one better. Anthropic has announced that it tasked 16 parallel ...

Edit Python AST trees while preserving source formatting Pfst is a clever Python package that performs transformations on Python abstract syntax trees while providing access to comments, formatting (e ...

Abstract: Abstract syntax trees (ASTs) are known from compiler construction where they build the intermediate data format which is passed from the analytic front-end to the synthetic back-end. In ...

“If you're coming from JavaScript, you're going to find a transition to Go a lot simpler than the transition to Rust.” Microsoft ports TypeScript to Go, achieving a 10x increase in compile speed.

Every software engineer knows working with massive codebases is challenging, especially when debugging a production bug or adding a new feature that impacts multiple classes or files. Going through ...

Abstract: Field programmable gate array (FPGA) logic synthesis compilers (e.g., Vivado, Iverilog, Yosys, and Quartus) are widely applied in electronic design automation (EDA), such as the development ...

As part of my Oakley project to create a compiler and it's associated OakAsm project to create an assembler (details coming soon) I needed to represent abstract syntax trees in C#. This library was ...