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The Horror of Building a Compiler From Scratch

A 34-minute video by chongly about computing mechanisms, on the From scratch shelf. It was posted to r/ProgrammingLanguages as “The Horror of Building a Compiler From Scratch”.

chongly, Video, 34 min, 2026, on the From scratch shelf

I invented a language called max--, and wrote a compiler for it from scratch in C/C++.

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