The Mica Story: How I Built a Complete Compiler Platform — Starting from Zero
“I looked at the compiler’s output and thought: this cannot be mine. I couldn’t believe what had happened. I am happier than I have been in 20 years.” Prologue: A Seed Planted Thirty Years Ago In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was a student, and I built my first Pascal compiler. It was based on PascalS from ETH Zürich. While it was a modest academic project, something happened to me during that time — I fell in love with the intricate puzzle of transforming human-readable code into something a machine could execute. ...