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Engineering deep dives from BuildsByBuchanan — starting with a series on Kittine, the programming language we built in-house.

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   Why We Built Our Own Programming Language: The Story of Kittine(kittine.com)

   Why we compiled a custom syntax down to Leptos/Rust and WebAssembly instead of reaching for another JS framework.

   KittineSivario BuchananJul 10, 20266 min read
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   How String Interpolation Grew Out of a Real Client Project(kittine.com)

   How "label: " + count became a format! lowering inside the compiler — a case study in growing a language through real use.

   KittineSivario BuchananJul 14, 20265 min read
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   From .kitty to WebAssembly: Inside the Kittine Compiler(kittine.com)

   A tour of the lexer, parser, and codegen pipeline that turns a .kitty file into a real WebAssembly binary.

   KittineSivario BuchananJul 17, 20267 min read
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   One Language, Two Renderers: CSR vs. SSR in Kittine(kittine.com)

   The same compiler powers a client-rendered app and a server-rendered one — plus the two real gotchas found wiring up SSR.

   KittineSivario BuchananJul 20, 20266 min read

More articles land here as we build. Prefer client stories and case studies instead? See the Blog or Case Studies.