Learning Mica — The Basics
A practical introduction to Mica for developers. Covers program structure, types, procedures, control flow, pointers, object units, and debugging — using the official examples.
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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.
Peephole Optimization in the Mica Compiler
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
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
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.
I built a native compiler in 2.5 years — and said nothing.
A native compiler in Go, zero dependencies, full ABI integration. This is why I stayed silent — and why that ends 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.