The Mica Compiler — A Technical Portrait
The canonical technical reference for the Mica compiler: architecture, type system, code generation, optimization, ELF output, and roadmap direction.
Language-Design
Mica Roadmap
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.
2.5 Years. One Engineer. A Native Compiler — and a Long Silence.
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
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.