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No, the point is that compilers are a different sort of beast. Writing a C compiler is not like other side-projects. It explicitly exercises a whole bunch of b
by chaosite 8y ago
No, the point is that compilers are a different sort of beast.
Writing a C compiler is not like other side-projects. It explicitly exercises a whole bunch of basic Computer Science skills, so if you can write a compiler, you obviously got a good grasp on those.
So, no, a project like homebrew is not perfectly analogous to a compiler. The hardest CS problem in there in my opinion is the dependency resolution, which can be a bitch, but it just doesn't have the breadth of problems that a compiler has.