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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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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.
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Nov 7, 2020 at 23:49
Design differences for small websites designed for specific, geographically focused communities: https://web.archive.org/web/20040411202042/http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html (article is from 2004, a basic server is even cheaper now!)
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Jul 18, 2020 at 20:03
The line between 'group chat' tool and 'web forum' seems increasingly blurry. What are the essential differences? The ability to edit? "$USER is typing" information? Threading? Simply the culture around the tool?