Well, low skill floor, sure, but there's a very high skill ceiling. John Regehr and his students have done impressively deep work in finding compiler bugs. •

Well, low skill floor, sure, but there's a very high skill ceiling. John Regehr and his students have done impressively deep work in finding compiler bugs. • https://blog.regehr.org/archives/category/compilers https://blog.regehr.org/archives/category/compilers • https://blog.regehr.org/ https://blog.regehr.org/ (some of his compiler-related posts aren't properly tagged) • [PDF] https://users.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi11-preprint.pdf https://users.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi11-preprint.pdf Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers (edit I see someone else already posted this paper) • A (very) little discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728035