Mica Compiler Project

Learning Mica — The Basics

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A practical introduction to Mica for developers. Covers program structure, types, procedures, control flow, pointers, object units, and debugging — using the official examples.

The Mica Compiler — A Technical Portrait

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The canonical technical reference for the Mica compiler: architecture, type system, code generation, optimization, ELF output, and roadmap direction.

Peephole Optimization in the Mica Compiler

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How Mica's x86-64 peephole optimizer works: why it exists, how its 17 conservative passes are organized, and which safety rules keep the rewrites correct.

Mica Roadmap

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The canonical roadmap for the Mica compiler — structured language completion through 4.x, full optimizer and multi-platform in 5.x, and AI-native semantics in 6.0.

Mica Backlog

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The active execution backlog for the Mica compiler — language ergonomics in 4.6, language completion and heap in 4.7, optimizer and concurrency in 4.8.

2.5 Years. One Engineer. A Native Compiler — and a Long Silence.

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I built a complete native compiler over 2.5 years, working nights and weekends. This is why I am only speaking about it now.

The Mica Story: Building a Compiler in the Second Half of Life

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How a solo developer built a complete native compiler over 2.5 years — the breakthroughs, the frustration, the nine months of fighting with AI tools, and a tribute to the man whose work started it all.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Language

The dragon is Mica’s mascot. He holds the sign activation function — sign y=(wx+b) — flanked by π and the atom. Mathematics and physics as native territory. He is not here to be intimidating. He is here to show that systems programming can have a personality.

Mica is a compiled, statically typed systems language. No garbage collector. No external dependencies. Native x86_64 machine code, direct access to every C library on the platform.

Impressum / Legal Notice

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pflichtangaben gemäß § 5 DDG / Legal disclosures under German law