4 Introducing The Compiler Company)}}}
5 If we've spoken recently I may have mentioned this new venture I've
6 been working on. Now is the time to elaborate on what I've been up to,
10 The name is a play on the phrase
/Compiler Collection/, as in
[[https://gcc.gnu.org/][GNU 11 Compiler Collection (GCC)]] and emphasizes my approach to
12 problem-solving involving compiler technologies.
14 I recently registered as an LLC, but the purpose of the company is
15 that of a company incubator, or
/company compiler/ if you will. In
16 other words, I intend for
/The Compiler Company, LLC/ to be a hub for
17 developing various interconnected products and services which can be
18 operated and managed independently of each other.
20 I (Richard Westhaver) am the sole owner and operator and will probably
21 keep it that way for quite some time. My intention is to operate at
22 minimal cost while I perform industry research and develop prototypes.
24 To support the company's purpose, I am developing a suite of free and
25 open-source software which is specifically designed for bootstrapping
26 and operating
=companies=.
30 The software provided by
/The Compiler Company/ is a powerful
31 development environment. It is the catalyst of engineering for every
32 other software component I build and reflects precisely how I believe
33 software should be developed.
35 As a whole, I optimize for the following features in my environment:
36 - early adoption :: integrate research, protocols, libraries, and
37 hardware features from leading research orgs faster than anyone else
38 - rapid development :: interaction, code introspection, tooling, and
39 automation built for prototyping at massive scale
40 - power :: using our environment should feel like cheating - macros,
41 DSLs, and unmatched hackability
44 /The Compiler Company/ is above all, a
=Lisp Company=. The most
45 powerful software requires the most powerful language.
47 Lisp isn't enough though.
=Rust= is our imperative language of choice
48 at the time of writing and generally suited for system-level software
51 We make use of the Steel Bank Common Lisp compiler (SBCL) and the
52 nightly Rust compiler toolchain.
54 *** Operating System Support 55 /The Compiler Company/ is a Linux Company. There may be minimal
56 support for Darwin-based systems, but Microsoft Windows systems will
57 never be supported by our software.
59 One of the
/anti-goals/ of our software is
~portability~. For all of
60 the features we optimize for, portability becomes a burden, especially
61 with closed-source OS kernels. We are also explicitly driven to reduce
62 consumer dependence on these closed-source systems, especially in a
63 distributed network. They are simply unfit for use with the software
71 We have a long way to go. The important thing is to keep up the
72 momentum. Before the start of 2024 you can expect another update on
73 some of the projects below.
74 ** the.compiler.company
