Bootstrapping a Type System (2010)

For those of you don&#x27;t know, Bob Nystrom is the developer of Wren (wren.io), and previous to it he developed Magpie (the language he&#x27;s discussing), and Finch (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finch.stuffwithstuff.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;finch.stuffwithstuff.com&#x2F;</a>). He&#x27;s pretty impressive as far as language development goes.

I&#x27;ve read a few of this guys blog posts and they are generally fairly interesting. This one a little less so, but I had a good chuckle from the line about why he implemented generics in magpie. &quot;Magpie has generics because I’m firmly of the opinion that a type system without generics is about as useful as a language with functions but no parameters.&quot; Let the go programmers pour hate upon this blog post

I followed this blog for a long time. The whole journey of creating the Magpie language is fantastic. Most of what I know as a senior dev comes from trying to really understand his posts.