Ask HN: Anyone in SF interested in compilers?

10 points by pyronicide 15y ago ↗ HN

After realizing that I don't know nearly as much as I'd like about compilers, I went looking for a way to learn more. While there is online courseware from MIT and Stanford, I'd really like to meet in person with some people to work through exercises and questions together.

Towards that end, is anyone interested in a bi-weekly meeting with lectures on compilers? I'm envisioning something that has a lecture and hacking time for the latest exercises.

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wglb 15y ago ↗

Ah, that would be fun, but alas! I am in Chicago.

[dead] startupgrrl 15y ago ↗

I'm currently writing a compiler. Drop me a line.

xlorm 15y ago ↗

I'm interested, but I'm not moving to SF until October. I'll message you my email in case you get a late start or want to try to meet around then.

I took a compilers course in college but I was too busy to get as much out of it as I wanted. I've always wanted to go back over that stuff and I've been wanting to learn more about the innards of Python, so I was hoping to combine the two.

lsb 15y ago ↗

Berkeley has a pretty good programming-languages program; a friend of mine has been working on parallelizing CSS rendering: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/#activities

sn 15y ago ↗

I'm reading "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" and yeah, learning more about compilers would be cool, but a big time commitment is not something I want ATM.

Might try asking the dojo if you're in south bay on any semi-regular basis.

alok-g 15y ago ↗

I am interested, but I am not based in SF. Let me know if not meeting in person works.