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I think of your area (compilers) not as outside the front-end/back-end dichotomy, but (to your point) outside the the world of web-apps, etc. The front-end/bac

by verrp 5y ago

I think of your area (compilers) not as outside the front-end/back-end dichotomy, but (to your point) outside the the world of web-apps, etc. The front-end/back-end lens can be applied to compilers -- just the "front-end" (invocation options, error/status messages, maybe IDE integrations) is very thin, compared to the "back-end" (i.e., everything else).

jhgb 5y ago
> "front-end" (invocation options, error/status messages, maybe IDE integrations) is very thin I thought the front end of a compiler was the parser and the associated code analysis steps (such as type checking), not "error messages".