• How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025 — Matt Godbolt's blog: How we handle 92 million compilations a year without everything catching fire

Thanks to Matt Godbolt for maintaining Compiler Explorer; it is truly an underrated gem.

I also picked up a few other insights from this post:

• google/nsjail: A lightweight process isolation tool that utilizes Linux namespaces, cgroups, rlimits and seccomp-bpf syscall filters, leveraging the Kafel BPF language for enhanced security. https://nsjail.dev
• Using squashfs to optimize 4TB of compiler storage
• Compiler Explorer Cost Transparency — Matt Godbolt's blog

• The weight of paper

Oh, I like this.

Feels so peaceful to interact with it.

I'm actually old enough to remember things that Gen Z might never have seen 🤣

• No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig
  • Crazy and awesome 🥲

Lie #6: Transpilers are not Compilers

People seemed to scared of compilers and resort to claims like “I don’t want something as complex”, or “string interpolation is good enough”. This is silly. Anyone who has built one of these “transpilers” knows that inevitably, they get complex and poorly maintained precisely because of the delusion that they aren’t doing something complex.

Programming languages are not just syntax; they have semantics too. Pretending that you can get away with just manipulating the former is delusional and results in bad tools.

I strongly agree the idea that "Transpiler"s are not "Compiler"s.

Every time I catch the complex output from nextjs and eta, I knew those arguments are absolute lies!

• Transpiler, a meaningless word | Rachit Nigam
• What do people mean when they say "transpiler"? - decomposition.al

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