TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end

Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end by ninalanyon on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:56AM (#43127456)

Not really. Relativity goes back to Galileo at least, and it's development by Einstein relied on Lorentz and Riemann among others. Science really is a process of /standing on the shoulders of giants/ as Newton is reputed to have said.

That doesn't diminish Einstein's achievement of course.

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Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end by sitkack on Friday February 21, 2025 @11:02AM (#43129050)

I made a facetious comment to parry that of pjmlp, whom also made a facetious comment wrt to compiler complexity and what "one person" can do.

https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle

It is like if one tried claiming that Fabrice Bellard was an example of a median dev.

The number of C++ compilers written by one person is one. And because of this, it gives us no predictive power in what pjmlp was trying to assert.

I agree with you, Albert and Lorentz and Riemann got caught in the rhetorical crossfire.

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Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end by mingodad on Friday February 21, 2025 @11:56AM (#43129874)

Not exactly the same but here https://github.com/robertoraggi/cplusplus there is one person serious effort to create a C++-23 compiler front end.

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Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end by fuhsnn on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:00PM (#43130740)

It does look serious, and is able to parse one simple case I got at hand that openwatcom and orangec failed, thanks for bringing it up.

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