I've been compilation buffers in Emacs recently and I really appreciate the error and warning counts shown in the modeline.
I've added the equivalent feature to deadgrep: it shows result counts! Really useful when you're doing big refactorings.
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A cute systemd feature to get the system clock roughly correct: if the system time is before the compilation time of the systemd binary, it moves the clock forward to that time!
Some delightful examples of good compiler error messages in the latest Gleam release:
An introduction to polyhedral compilation, with a worked example showing how you compute relevant linear transforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAF-orse4hE