Red Echo

June 11, 2012

Why people making compilers are superheroes:

Writing a compiler is fun! And by fun I mean it makes you feel like driving a metal rod through your brain. It’s fun in that rewarding Holy crap, did I just survive that!? I survived _that_? Damn.
The complexity is immense. The difficulty of discovering there’s a problem at all … even immenser.

Aww :-)