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A few weeks ago longtime Mac developer Daniel Jalkut said something on Twitter that struck a chord with me.

So You Want to Be a (Compiler) Wizard

A month or so ago, @__biancat (whose username I can’t help but read as “Bian-cat” even though it’s probably “Bianca T.”) suggested I write up some ideas for getting into compilers and programming languages.

It turns out I’m happy to expound on this, and it doesn’t need a formal CS education either.1 Unfortunately, pretty much all of them require some amount of free time. I’ll come back to that at the end of the post.