Reading club sessions
The dev-guide is large, dense, and often written by subject-matter-experts. Occasionally, maintainers and anyone else who's interested will read through existing chapters to try and understand them. This appendex indexes those Zulip discussions.
- February 26, 2024: Compiler architecture, queries, bootstrap, serialization, and rustdoc
- March 11, 2024: Bootstrap deep dive
- April 8, 2024: Syntax and the AST, initial discussion
- April 17, 2024: Syntax, the AST, parsing, expansion, and name resolution
- May 2, 2024: HIR and THIR
- May 29, 2024: MIR
- November 20, 2024: Compiler identifiers, closure capture, inline assembly, and guide organization
- December 4, 2024: Generic parameters and early- and late-bound parameters
- March 19, 2025: Diagnostics and lints
For plans and general discussion, see the reading club coordination topic.