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Re:On the Madness of Optimizing Compilers by akkartik on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @03:11AM (#11244064)
A degenerate case is my project, which makes people write assembly, but in a very safe way that it can check. You lose the expressivity of conventional HLLs, but still get their safety benefits.

https://github.com/akkartik/mu

Re:On the Madness of Optimizing Compilers by jcr on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:38AM (#11244324)
After reading the mu link you posted, I was going to ask you to submit it as a "Show HN" post... but it seems I'm about a month too late:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11092067

It's great reading. thanks.