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There's a book about doing this with Git. I wonder how much of the content is cribbed from sources like that, laundered through LLMs.

https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

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I've been watching this space closely and have been on the lookout for new releases. Besides "Building Git", there is also "Building a Debugger"[0], "Writing a C compiler"[1], "Crafting Interpreters"[2], "The Raytracer Challenge"[3], and a few others that I can't vouch for as they appear to be low-quality compared to the ones I listed out.

The potential for technical authors in this space is enormous.

[0]: https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger

[1]: https://nostarch.com/writing-c-compiler

[2]: https://craftinginterpreters.com/

[3]: http://raytracerchallenge.com/

Writing a C Compiler is really good. I enjoyed myself doing it with Rust and Zig.

Yeah. I did it in Rust only, but went a bit farther than the book and implemented some constructs that were not found in the book. I was able to compile my other compiler written in C with the C compiler I had written in Rust.

I had a similar suspicion, though I thought the source material was from DAS.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog

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