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Well, low skill floor, sure, but there's a very high skill ceiling.

John Regehr and his students have done impressively deep work in finding compiler bugs.

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/category/compilers

https://blog.regehr.org/ (some of his compiler-related posts aren't properly tagged)

• [PDF] https://users.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/pldi11-preprint.pdf Finding and Understanding Bugs in C Compilers (edit I see someone else already posted this paper)

• A (very) little discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728035



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