Tao Liu

Developer tools Engineer

Tao Liu is a developer tools engineer with over six years of experience in Rust, focusing on RISC-V toolchain development and low-level systems. He leads developer tools at a global financial services company while continuing to build compiler and infrastructure projects in the RISC-V ecosystem. Previously, he was a member of the F# core team at Microsoft in Redmond and is the sole author of F# for C# Developers.

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This edition

Rethinking Pattern Matching: Flowcharts and PEG Parsing in a RISC-V C Compiler
November 02 2026 - 16:45 (45 min )

Pattern matching is at the heart of compilers—but it’s often buried in complex, hard-to-read code.

What if we could make it visual—and declarative?

In this talk, we explore a new approach where flowcharts represent pattern matching logic as tree structures, inspired by logic programming. Instead of writing matching rules directly in code, they are defined visually and compiled into Rust.

LEVEL: Intermediate

Rethinking Pattern Matching: Flowcharts and PEG Parsing in a RISC-V C Compiler

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