Strategies for X-Platform Code

TypeScript and JavaScript allow the author to place all manner of statements at file scope level…

Quality Assurance and Pragmatism

QA is in a strange place these days.

W Key Developers & The Compiler

W Keying is a term borrowed from behemoth zeitgeist, Fortnite.

Configuration Considerations

Configuration design is a subset of general API design that is a principal driver in the pursuit of low…

Relaxed Parser

The first phase of a Sempiler pipeline is parsing, the task of taking some source input representing a program, and creating an agnostic semantic tree from it that the rest of the pipeline can reason about and manipulate.

Compiler Democratisation In Practice

One of the key tenets of the Sempiler project is democratising compilation.

Democratisation is a bit of a buzzword — one I admittedly stole from Unity’s slogan ‘democratising data’.

Learning from the Prototype

Last year a rough Sempiler prototype was available as a Visual Studio Code plugin.

Whilst related by lineage, the current verison of Sempiler is a complete rewrite, and a wide scale departure from it’s predecessor in a number of notable ways.