Rui Ueyama is one of the most interesting coders of our age. chibicc in particular is one of the loveliest projects I've seen. I found it so captivating that wh

Rui Ueyama is one of the most interesting coders of our age. chibicc in particular is one of the loveliest projects I've seen. I found it so captivating that when it got posted to HN last year I dropped what I was doing for a month just to hack on it. It's rare to find codebases with enough clarity to be educational. I learned so much reading his chibicc code. For example, in a world where the orthodox solution to these kinds of things is to use Bison or Antlr, the thought never would have occurred to me before that writing a parser in C could be so easy. That's how I was able to write an assembler for it. Rui is also living proof that the will and motivation to simplify also generalizes to the ability to create production-quality tools with superior performance, as evidenced by Mold. Very exciting to see his work take off.