#Compilers

Rust Treats the GPU as One Big SIMD Register

Vectorware compiles std::simd straight onto NVIDIA warps, so one kernel now runs on CPU and GPU.

Article · 3d ago3

Project Oberon Ditches Its Dead FPGA for RISC-V

Rochus Keller's RV32 port trades Wirth's final dialect for a retargetable compiler and a shot at ESP32-class hardware.

Article · 4d ago0

Vercel's Zero Bets the Next Programmer Isn't Human

An experimental graph-first language revives ideas that failed for decades; its non-human audience might finally make them stick.

Article · 1w ago1

TypeScript 7's 10x Compiler Lands, With One Big Catch

The Go-native compiler's 8-12x build speedups hold up in production, but lint and framework tooling must wait for 7.1.

Article · 1w ago1

Build a Toy Compiler in Rust: Lexer, Parser, and Bytecode VM

Tokenize, parse, compile, and execute a tiny language on a stack VM in 300 lines of dependency-free Rust.

Tutorial · 1w ago0

Rust Builds Got 5.6% Faster. Read the Fine Print

The big wins landed in rustdoc and Clippy, while the compiler core's top contributor looks for funding.

Article · 1w ago0

GCC's AI Ban Is a Copyright Firewall, Not a Quality Gate

The steering committee will refuse LLM-generated patches over 15 lines — the opposite bet from LLVM's human-in-the-loop policy.

Article · 2w ago2

SBCL 2.6.7 Brings AVX-512 and ARM64 SIMD to Lisp

The monthly release also moves the manual into the live image — and shows why steady cadence keeps Common Lisp alive.

Article · 2w ago1

Zig's 50ms Rebuilds Rest on Patching Binaries in Place

A core-team internals writeup shows the hard part was never caching — it was incremental linking.

Article · 2w ago0

Scriptc Bets TypeScript Is Static Enough to Go Native

Vercel Labs' engine-free compiler ships 200KB binaries — until your npm dependencies drag in an interpreter.

Article · 2w ago1

Vercel's Scriptc Is the Right Compiler Built the Wrong Way

The TypeScript-to-native design is worth stealing, even if the week-old, AI-written implementation isn't ready for trust.

Article · 2w ago2

The Useless If That Broke a Latency Chain

A one-line dependency turned a hot loop into a crawl. Branch prediction and a volatile cast fixed it.

Article · 1mo ago1

Ant: A Custom-Engine JavaScript Runtime for the Edge

A lightweight, C-based runtime challenges V8 and JavaScriptCore hegemony in resource-constrained environments.

Article · 1mo ago0

The Cost of the Compiler in the Age of AI

Scarf's migration from Haskell to Python reveals how agentic workflows are rewriting the rules of language selection.

Article · 1mo ago0

Next.js Canary Updates Target Service Workers and Compiler Memory

Recent canary releases show Next.js optimizing its Rust compiler for legacy architectures while tightening its experimental React integration.

Article · 1mo ago0