"On March 26, Graydon Hoare, the original creator of the Rust programming language, stopped in to speak about compilers to some lucky University of British Columbia students in the school’s introductory class to compiler construction.
"With the aspiring compiler designers of tomorrow in mind, Hoare’s talk spanned the history of building compilers for programming languages (He didn’t record the talk, so we have the slides to go by). He told the students he wanted to demystify that space “between class projects and industrial compilers” to “reduce terror, spark curiosity, encourage trying it as a career.”
"With the aspiring compiler designers of tomorrow in mind, Hoare’s talk spanned the history of building compilers for programming languages (He didn’t record the talk, so we have the slides to go by). He told the students he wanted to demystify that space “between class projects and industrial compilers” to “reduce terror, spark curiosity, encourage trying it as a career.”
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