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I happens to be a professional compiler developer (among other things). And nope that is not the right answer. The right answer is 1k tests making sure that a n
by mbrodersen 4y ago
I happens to be a professional compiler developer (among other things). And nope that is not the right answer. The right answer is 1k tests making sure that a new version is (almost) never released with bugs. I haven’t had a bug in production for 5+ years. And routinely completely rewrite and optimised parts of the system with no fear.
- kabdib 4y agoI think we can agree that if you don't have tests, you don't have a compiler. You don't have anything, really not even a toy. But there are too many languages out there in production that don't have debugging support worth a tinker's damn. (I spent quite a few years working on toolchains, jitters and runtime systems. It's fun stuff).