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by cardanome 42 days ago
Yeah and

> A C compiler written in Rust used to be a graduate thesis. It isn’t anymore.

Or maybe like a little recreational project for multiple weekends.

There is that weird myth that writing compilers is super hard. Writing a toy C compiler is not that big of a deal. It is a pretty simple language.

Now production-grade is another beast but that is something AI can't do.