A delightful suggestion from the Rust compiler: you have no field of that name, looks like you need to access it via another field!
Adding a snazzy compiler error is a rarely used feature (in each individual case), but it's wonderful when you hit that case.
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I've never seen a good design philosophy on how to sort compiler errors for the best UX.
Do you order by line, or by severity? Do you put the most actionable at the end (because that's most visible when the terminal scrolls) or at the beginning?
Anthropic used Claude to write a C compiler in Rust (CCC). I've really enjoyed following the discussion.
The initial post shows how they wrote the harness with GCC as an oracle and a prompt specifying a design using SSA. The author has clear domain expertise.
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
Co-Authored-By: An old Stack Overflow answer, blindly accepting the compiler's suggestions, and a linter.
