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jsbuffer — The Compiler Rewrites Itself
Five years after mff, Victor rebuilt the entire serialization stack from scratch in TypeScript. No C, no native bindings, the most ambitious code generation yet.
Tag: compilers
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mff — Where the Pieces Meet
Victor's serialization framework wraps btc's C parser in TypeScript and adds the code generator that was missing from every earlier project. btc was never standalone.
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binary-transfer — The Schema That Came Before
Victor's 2017 serialization library parses the same kind of schema that btc parses in C. The JavaScript version came first. The C port came after.
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btc — The Compiler Moves to C
Victor's 2018 compiler parses a custom schema language in pure C. The same technique from vdom-raw, now with malloc and -Werror.
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vdom-raw: The First Compiler
Victor stopped extracting parsers from frameworks and wrote his own. An HTML-to-virtual-dom compiler — hand-built lexer, recursive descent parser, ESTree AST, code generation. The shift from extraction to creation.
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parse.js: What Was Left Behind
A line-by-line comparison of Victor's parse.js against Angular 1.4.1's $parse. The extraction was almost verbatim — and incomplete in ways that matter.