If you want to make a single long version of the page that includes all three parts, I'd be happy to arrange a repost. It would be best to email hn@ycombinator.com about it.
For those not aware of the bike shedding metaphor, it's the assertion that when discussing the design of a nuclear power plant, everyone will want to discuss the color of the shed where the workers store their bikes because they understand it. Meanwhile, nobody will want to discuss the nuclear reactor itself, because that's complicated and they don't really understand what's going on with it.
In compilers, parsing is the bike shed, and code emitters are the nuclear reactor. I've read probably hundreds of articles on "compilers" at this point, and they're all actually just about parsers. I can't point to a single one that actually emitted working assembly.
Congrats on at least having an emitter, but I'm still searching for an article that shows how to emit assembly of any kind.
i know what the bike shedding metaphor is and frankly you're stretching it a bit because all this person is trying to do is educate and they're not even saying this is the only way to do it.
seems odd to pull out the bike shed metaphor for every case there's an abundance of technical articles on a subject matter. There's lots of tutorials on for loops in X language. Do you consider that bike shedding?
