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Re:Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C+... by smokel on Saturday January 13, 2024 @07:26AM (#38979339)
The field is called "compiler design". Consider taking a course [1] or buying a book?

A somewhat more playful approach might be to complete the 2019 edition of Advent of Code [2], where you'll learn some preliminaries while implementing the Intcode interpreter.

[1] https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ycscs1-compilers

[2] https://adventofcode.com/2019

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Re:Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C+... by astrange on Saturday January 13, 2024 @07:45AM (#38979460)
The trick is to ignore the people recommending the Dragon Book. It makes everything sound unnecessarily complicated and will scare you off.
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