Do you know that java compiler ‘javac ‘ is writing in java ? weird right? How a java program will compile a java program ? let me break it down for you , javac is a self-hosting compiler which means ...

I created BQN's bootstrapping compiler chain in early 2023 to solve a classic self-hosting problem: in order to run, CBQN depends on bytecode for the compiler and runtime, but building them requires a ...

In the early days, compilers were written using assembly language. Later, the languages themselves were used to write their own compilers through a process called bootstrapping. Today, we use ...