c4 Compiler

22 Nov 2014 • mjtsai.com

Michael Tsai:

Robert Swierczek has written a minimal C compiler in about 500 lines of code (via Michael Feathers).

Crazy. Kind of thing that makes me feel insecure about my CompSci skills. Sure I can write an entire forum system in less than 490 LOC with Ruby on Rails… but here is a guy writing an entire C compiler in C with the same line count?

Crazy.