Are you talking about compilers, or just ("dumb") interpreters? To me, the harde...

wfunction on Feb 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: How to write a tiny compiler

Are you talking about compilers, or just ("dumb") interpreters? To me, the hardest part of writing a compiler is the middle part that you totally neglected to mention: the static analysis & optimization. Not the parsing or the codegen.