WideCharr

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   by WideCharr 2y ago

   As a software developer who later got into hardware design, I've always been pretty disappointed with the quality of HDL tools. You get a bit spoiled by the quality of compilers like gcc and clang, and then you run into ridiculously ex
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   by WideCharr 2y ago

   Was this at Stevens Tech? I had a Prof Tewksbury there that would have done something just like this.
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   by WideCharr 6y ago

   Going to plug my work on this here: https://github.com/MikePopoloski/slang At some point I'd like to see it integrated as the frontend to tools like Yosys to get best-in-class SystemVerilog support in open tools.
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   by WideCharr 6y ago

   runevault made a similar point below, and it's pretty valid -- if you're writing a new compiler for a new language, the target is frequently changing and you care most about iteration speed. I've mostly done compiler developm
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   by WideCharr 6y ago

   I like the way the various approaches are presented here, though the author briefly mentions a factor which I feel like really short circuits the entire discussion: error messages. Most people readily agree that recursive descent parsers ca
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   by WideCharr 9y ago

   Interesting that you "don't know" something and would immediately start passing laws about it...
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   Solution Without a Problem? A Tax on High-Frequency Trading(nytimes.com)

   4 points by WideCharr 11y ago|1 comments