"I have seen the glint in their eyes when [compiler devs] discuss optimization techniques you would not want your children to know about!"
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I've not seen this before: a captcha to distinguish adults from children! The in-app purchases were behind this screen.
The primary user is a 3 year old who can only count to 20 😊
... and my third refactoring with Cursor changed some function calls that I didn't want it to modify. Subtle.
I've had the most success with AI coding tools when I know exactly what I want the output to look like.
I would have thought that invoking a C compiler would be a solved problem. Looking at Rust's cc crate there's a remarkable long tail of corner cases to fix.
Exotic CPUs, microarchitectures, compiler differences, operating system differences, etc.
https://github.com/rust-lang/cc-rs/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md