Apr 16 · 6 min read · So you want to write a compiler. You've looked at the Dragon Book sitting on someone's shelf (or the PDF gathering dust in your downloads folder), and the sheer density of it made you quietly close the tab and go back to writing CRUD apps. I get it. ...
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Apr 14 · 7 min read · The GALA IDE experience runs on two processes. One is a Kotlin plugin inside IntelliJ. The other is a Go binary speaking LSP over stdio. They share a grammar, they share a user, and they disagree about almost everything else. This post explains why t...
Join discussionApr 11 · 8 min read · The user types order. and pauses. The editor fires a textDocument/completion request. The LSP has about 100 milliseconds to figure out what order is, what methods and fields it has, and return a sorted list of suggestions with signatures. Most langua...
Join discussionApr 10 · 6 min read · If you're building a language that compiles to native code, the path to editor tooling is well-understood: run your type checker, expose the results. But if your language transpiles to another high-level language, you're stuck in an awkward middle gr...
Join discussionFeb 16 · 22 min read · Introduction C++ has been around for over 41 years. Over the years, many features have been added, and one of the most powerful is compile-time computation. C++ actually had this capability before its standardization in 1998, particularly after templ...
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Feb 4 · 4 min read · Every backend developer knows this code: async function fetchWithRetry(url, maxRetries = 3) { let lastError; for (let i = 0; i < maxRetries; i++) { try { return await fetch(url); } catch (error) { lastError = error; awai...
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Dec 11, 2025 · 4 min read · Programming is pretty much fun! We can do amazing things with programming, such as building a calculator, building a website, or even building an AI Agent (or LLM, you get the idea). But machines don't understand these programming languages directly....
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Nov 11, 2025 · 9 min read · 📋 Project Summary Project: Scaladex: Support for Compiler Plugins Duration: Google Summer of Code 2025 (medium project – 175 hours) Key Contributions: Extended Scala models by introducing the CompilerPlugin platform in Platform.scala and updating B...
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Apr 3, 2025 · 5 min read · Welcome back! This article is a continuation of my previous article, “Week 11 - Project Stage 2: Phase 1&2 (Create New Pass + Identify Cloned Function)”, where I created the custom GCC pass and implemented the cloned function logic. Upon reviewing th...
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Jan 28, 2025 · 16 min read · Introduction In this post, I will share the way I built a Lexical Analyzer using python. The purpose of this post is to understand the tasks performed by the lexical analyzer and how they are performed. This post describes how I developed the first p...
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