Scrapscript is a small, pure, functional, content-addressable, network-first programming language. fact 5 . fact = | 0 -> 1 | n -> n * fact (n - 1) My previous post introduced the language a bit and then talked about the interpreter that Chris and I built. This post is about the compiler that Chris and I built. In the beginning, there was an interpreter Writing a simple tree-walking interpreter is

It’s been nine whole years since PEP 484 landed and brought us types from on high. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move1. Since then, people on the internet have been clamoring to find out: does this mean we can now compile Python to native code for more speed? It’s a totally reasonable question. It was one of my first questions when I first started worki