Jul 16, 2025 · 3 min read · For weeks, our compiler worked — until it didn’t. Specifically, it choked on one of the most deceptively simple constructs in any modern language: lambda expressions. The syntax x -> x > 1 became our white whale. Sure, we could patch it. But patches ...
Join discussionMay 2, 2025 · 10 min read · Kotlin has an expressive and flexible syntax that enables a clean, modern coding style, but it also complicates parsing. This two-part blog series sheds light on Kotlin’s unique syntactic features and the parsing techniques needed to handle these fea...
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May 1, 2025 · 22 min read · What is a Compiler? A compiler is a specialized translator program that reads a program written in a high-level source language and translates it into a target language, often machine or assembly language. The compilation process involves several pha...
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Feb 4, 2025 · 14 min read · Now the EK9 grammar has stabilised, it's time to ensure that the EK9 code written by the developer actually makes sense. All of these phases use ANTLR Listeners/Visitors but all delegate processing, rules and checks to functions. These functions tend...
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Sep 15, 2024 · 24 min read · Previous Posts: Creating TuffScript: Exploring Esoteric Programming Languages and Their Foundations Mastering Formal Grammars: An Introduction to the Chomsky Hierarchy Precedence and Associativity in Grammar Rules Mastering Lexical and Syntax Analysi...
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Aug 25, 2024 · 13 min read · Previous Posts: Creating TuffScript: Exploring Esoteric Programming Languages and Their Foundations Mastering Formal Grammars: An Introduction to the Chomsky Hierarchy Precedence and Associativity in Grammar Rules Lexical analysis After defining the ...
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Jul 16, 2024 · 2 min read · A while back, I needed to create a presentation on interpreters, compilers, transpilers, and programming languages. I thought the best way to explain the basic concepts necessary to dive deep into these topics was to create a small, perhaps even usel...
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Apr 7, 2021 · 6 min read · One of the more interesting I’ve done recently is learning how to modify JavaScript code programmatically using Babel. Babel is a JavaScript transpiler, best known for transpiling ES5+ code into a backwards-compatible version of JavaScript that can r...
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