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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: C# Compiler and Language Design at Microsoft with Jared Parsons
Description: Language and compiler design are fundamental aspects of computer science. High-level languages are how most developers interact with computers, so it's hard to overstate the significance of compiler engineering or the aesthetics of language syntax.C# is a general-purpose high-level language that was created by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft in 2000, and was open-sourced in 2014.Jared Parsons is the Principal Developer Lead on the C# Language Team at Microsoft, where he's worked for 20 years. He joins the show to talk about how the C# compiler is developed, the compiler as an API, language creation as an...