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Formal methods aren't just an academic curiosity, they have been used for real-world OS work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAM_project https://en.wikipedia.or
by MaxBarraclough 7y ago
Formal methods aren't just an academic curiosity, they have been used for real-world OS work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAM_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAM_project
> Less mainstream programming languages get better only if you have an expensive in-house team working on the compiler.
Not if you defer optimisation to an external (and actively maintained) backend like LLVM. Rust and Zig do this.
- antoinealb 7y ago"Better" is not only a compiler backend thing. Things like better static analysis could also matter. I believe some optimisations are also done by the front end but I don't know enough about compiler design to expand on that.