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EmberConf 2016: How to Build a Compiler by James Kyle

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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

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James Kyle demystifies compilers by walking through parsing, traversal, and code generation using simple examples.

How to Build a Compiler by James Kyle Compilers are all around you: Babel, Handlebars/HTMLBars, Glimmer, Uglify, and more. In this talk we'll walk through every part of a compiler from the parser to the generator. Learn about visitors and traversal, paths, scopes, bindings, and everything else. By the end compilers shouldn't seem like magic, and maybe you'll even want to contribute back to them.

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