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Jun 15, 2013 at 10:39
To be clear: I love Arch, but the aggressive rolling release produces some interesting problems sometimes.

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Decompiling Super Mario 64 by carefully writing C that produces the same assembly! https://gbatemp.net/threads/super-mario-64-has-been-decompiled.542918/ A huge task, although shipping the game without aggressive optimisations made it easier apparently.
Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
Super Mario 64 has been decompiled
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Type systems can be nominal or structural, they might force an option type, and they might even encode side effects (IO or exceptions). I think the biggest single improvement (where compiles≈correct) is exhaustiveness checking. This produces thoroughness and often robustness.