Was in a rut for way too long. Slowly getting back to learning by doing https://www.nand2tetris.org/. So far it has been enjoyable.

This is really cool, and I can really relate to being in a rut. Thank you so much for sharing.

Anyone interested in following the course together during the holidays? To keep each other motivated etc.

If you have to stop "early" please get through the simple DCE and LVN passes.

A solid basic-block level DCE & LVN optimization along with a judicious "compile time evaluator" (simple constant folding) will let you produce code at around 80% of the level of LLVM.

Obviously, you're not going to get the magic that comes of LLVM's scalar analysis pass, but you're not going to be embarrassed with your performance, either.

Yes! How should we organize this? Maybe start with an IRC channel?

Yes! an IRC channel would be great! Do you want to start it and post the info here? Or else I can start

I remember using IRC chans when doing coursera moocs, it was fun. See ya there

You can start :)

Discord seems faster and more likely to attract a small group nowadays.

Just created one here https://discord.gg/RBPmmdWg

Is this link still valid? It says the invite is invalid.

I'm interested too.

> Anyone interested in following the course together during the holidays? To keep each other motivated etc.

Hey, don't forget my little "advent of code" too:

https://github.com/pfalcon/python-ast-hacking-challenges/iss...

"Convert Python source code to SSA form"

I'm interested. I'm writing a compiler-interpreter now but my broad compiler-construction chops are spotty and going through this systematically might be useful.

I would love to do so! I'm a masters student who has been wishing there was an advanced compilers course in my program, there's only the undergrad level one, so this is perfect! Let me know how I can get in contact.

I’m interested. I may not have the most relevant background, though — I’m a data scientist with an econometrics education. The topic really does interest me, though.

I'm a devops engineer. So not very related either!

I'm game. My background is in math and not CS, so I can't say I'm certain I have the prerequisite knowledge.

I would love to join as well. Loop me in too, if there is IRC channel

Created a discord channel https://discord.gg/RBPmmdWg

Do you have a group for us to join?

Okay, I just created this on discord https://discord.gg/RBPmmdWg. Considering it might be more accessible for people. Wondering if I should post this out of the thread.

I like the Recurse center codewords publication https://codewords.recurse.com/

I am a member of one of the projects that got awarded. We desperately are in need of better infrastructure for our development and testing purposes. Also we plan on collaborating face-to-face the coming year and the award definitely takes care of the expense. One of our team members is going to work full time on the project and we will be able to support her for at least a couple of months. We are all so excited! :) Btw, I am a part of the project PeARS.

I am very interested in your project.

But I couldn't find a binary or source that I could compile, on your website or your github page. Can you point me in the right direction?

Our github account is here: https://github.com/PeARSearch/ We are not yet release ready. We plan on making our first release later this year. Please feel free to hangout at our IRC channel: #pears on Freenode. We are at a very early stage of development and we have got a lot of work to do. Any kind of contribution would be highly appreciated.

Thanks, very exciting project. I already made another post in this comments section before reading this (I was that excited :P). I see there's plans for a FF-plugin which is great news. My mind is a little blown as I have never really thought about P2P-search as a possibility. Less centralized power over search is a great and important cause (imo).

Awesome thanks. I'll go check on the channel for regular updates. I'm looking forward to this and I'll help where I can.