Build a Wasm Compiler in Roc - Part 2

August 15, 2024 in Programming, Roc

My latest hair-brained project is a WAT-to-Wasm compiler written in the Roc programming language. I explained my (ir)rationale for the project in Part 1 of this series, which also included an introduction to the technologies we’ll be using.

Note: Other articles in this series are collected here.

In this article, we’ll get started writing some Roc code. We won’t get to the point where we are doing anything with WAT or Wasm, yet, but we will be able to load an input file and parse some command line arguments.

Build a Wasm Compiler in Roc - Part 1: Introduction

August 11, 2024 in Programming, Roc

I’ve been curious about the Roc programming language for a while now, but I haven’t had/taken the time to really dig into it. I’ve read through the tutorial several times, but only yesterday did I actually sit down and install Roc and implement the tutorial. Today, I woke up with the ridiculous idea to build a compiler in the language.

A simple compiler, to be clear.

Understanding Inko Memory Management Through Data Structures

June 26, 2023 in Inko, Programming Languages

I briefly described Inko’s unique memory management model in my previous article. In this one, I want to go into a little more detail on single ownership and move semantics by implementing a few linked lists, and a couple graphs. This is a tutorial about Inko and not about data structures, so I am assuming that you have a passing knowledge of the data structures in question (or know how to use a search engine to get that passing knowledge).

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 6

July 27, 2022 in Programming, Languages, Gleam

Introduction This is the sixth in a series of articles exploring the Gleam programming language. In this one, I’m setting aside my little password cracking project to look at gleam for frontend development. I love Rescript for frontend development, it’s a very practical functional programming language, and I’ve written a lot on the topic. So this article will also be a bit of a comparison of Gleam and Rescript. This isn’t really a fair comparison as Rescript is a mature language, and Gleam’s Javascript support is super brand new.

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 5

July 24, 2022 in Programming, Languages, Gleam

Introduction This is the fifth in a series of articles exploring the Gleam programming language. In the most recent article, we started exploring how Gleam interfaces with ERLang’s powerful OTP concurrency framework to brute force some passwords. However, it was suboptimal, partially because I didn’t know what I was doing, and partially because I didn’t have time to go into some of the deeper details. I also had a super valuable tip from the Gleam discussion group that I wanted to go into.

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 4

June 5, 2022 in Programming, Languages, Gleam

Introduction This is the fourth in a series of articles exploring the Gleam programming language. The first article explored some of the most basic features of Gleam; just enough to say hello. The second discussed looping constructs, namely that gleam doesn’t have them. The third was supposed to be about parallel programming and OTP, but it ended up being more about looping and recursion. So this one is about parallel programming and OTP.

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 3

May 23, 2022 in Programming, Languages, Gleam

Introduction This is the third in a series of articles exploring the Gleam programming language. The first article explored some of the most basic features of Gleam; just enough to say hello. The second discussed looping constructs, namely that gleam doesn’t have them. This one was supposed to investigate how Gleam integrates with Erlang’s famous OTP library for concurrency and fault tolerance. But I got sidetracked and ended up doing a second article on recursion and tail recursion instead.

Build a Wasm Compiler in Roc - Part 2

Build a Wasm Compiler in Roc - Part 1: Introduction

Understanding Inko Memory Management Through Data Structures

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 6

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 5

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 4

A Tutorial Introduction to Gleam -- Part 3

Dusty Phillips