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Would you accept the same quality of implementation from a human team?

• vidarh 8mo ago
  A compiler that can't magically know how to find headers that don't exist in the expected directory? Yes, that is the case for pretty much every compiler. I suppose you could build the headers into the binary, but nobody does that.
  • tekne 8mo ago
    Consider: content-addressed headers.
    • vidarh 8mo ago
      Then you might as well embed the headers, since in that case you can't update the compiler and headers separately anyway.
    • IshKebab 8mo ago
      I guess you've heard of https://www.unison-lang.org/ https://www.unison-lang.org/
• dzaima 8mo ago
  I've certainly encountered clang & gcc not finding or just not having header files a good couple times. Mostly around cross-compilation, but there was a period of time for which clang++ just completely failed to find any C++ headers on my system.
• fooker 8mo ago
  Yes, clang is famously in this category. If you copy the clang binary to a random place in your filesystem, it will fail to compile programs that include standard headers.