23: “Epic compiler quest”, with special guests Harlan Haskins and Robert Widmann

Harlan Haskins and Robert Widmann, who are both regular contributors to the Swift compiler, join John to take a deep dive into the internals of Swift, its type system, the compilation process and how they used LLVM to build their own programming language.

Links

• Harlan on Twitter
• Robert on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• Harlan and Robert's talk at App Builders
• Trill
• Silt
• Agda
• LLVM
• LLVMSwift
• libSyntax
• Conor McBride's talk
• LLVM Kaleidoscope tutorial
• Swift Intermediate Language (SIL)
• Robert's 3SAT Gist
• Conditional conformances in Swift
• Swift Forums
• Swift JIRA
• Swift for TensorFlow
• Episode with Meghan Kane about Machine Learning
• Harlan's try! Swift talk about libSyntax
• LLVM Swift Slack
• Harlan's website
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk