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"Front-end is not where the challenges are in any production compiler." It's an extremely complex problem in itself, because most frontends strive for supporti
by danielscrubs 7y ago
"Front-end is not where the challenges are in any production compiler."
It's an extremely complex problem in itself, because most frontends strive for supporting autocompletion of broken/half-finished code with good performance and type hints.
How many are really happy with their IDE's? I remember Borland Pascal IDE and Visual Studio 6 being shining examples and after that... I don't really know what happened. Tried a Scala project with VSCode, takes around a minute for it to pick up my variable changes and 100% CPU, even worse with SwiftUI and XCode. And the computers back then had what? 600mhz?
I'd say, move some c++ graybeards to the frontend team to fix this mess.