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Jul 21, 2017 at 20:35
Fascinating discussion on the differences between a compiler's AST and IDEs (&comments from the IntelliJ Rust folks)
Towards a second edition of the compiler
Towards a second edition of the compiler
Rust has amazing potential to generate impressively fast projects. It seems like every week, we hear about new advancements in browsers, search engines, web servers, and more - all driven by the safety and performance that Rust provides. At the same time, compile times are a common complaint for the Rust compiler. As projects grow, the compile time pains also grow. This is doubly true for programmers coming to Rust from dynamic languages, and from languages with faster compile times. Just ...

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