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by macintux 138 days ago
I've favorited a fair number of compiler discussions here. Some you may find useful, either for the linked content or the discussions therein:

- Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38182461

- Write your own retro compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591662

- Compiling a Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216904

- Writing a C Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41227716

- Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593088

- Working through 'Writing a C Compiler' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44541565

- Build a Compiler in Five Projects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46031220

Personally I found Crafting Interpreters to be a terrific introduction to the key concepts: https://craftinginterpreters.com

(But I'm just a kibitzer, I've never written anything more serious than a DSL in Perl.)