Playful Programming

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Last weekend I watched this video of Andreas Kling prototyping a JIT compiler for his Ladybird browser: It’s a very interesting video, for two reasons. One: if you’re interested in how bytecode VMs and JIT compilers work, it’s all in there, explained step by step. A goldmine, really. If I had had a video like that 6-7 years ago I might not have...