Today I learnt that gcc can mean 'Google Closure Compiler'. It's a sophisticated compiler, but I suppose its use cases are sufficiently non-overlapping with C compilers to avoid confusion. Surprised me though.
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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
Some delightful examples of good compiler error messages in the latest Gleam release: https://gleam.run/news/context-aware-compilation/
Today I learnt that Lua projects often use *3* spaces for indentation! https://github.com/luarocks/lua-style-guide/blob/master/README.md#indentation-and-formatting
I initially thought something was very wrong with editor config.