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Compilers and Overly Complex Web Development with Thorsten Ball

17.3.2024

Software Unscripted

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Richard talks to Thorsten Ball, a programmer at Zed Industries and author of two books on compilers. They start out talking about the differences between compilers and interpreters, what the trickiest parts are of teaching compilers, and then end up talking about the unnecessary complexity that has taken over modern Web Development.

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