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Re:Using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering... by verrp on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:22AM (#28478385)
I think of your area (compilers) not as outside the front-end/back-end dichotomy, but (to your point) outside the the world of web-apps, etc.

The front-end/back-end lens can be applied to compilers -- just the "front-end" (invocation options, error/status messages, maybe IDE integrations) is very thin, compared to the "back-end" (i.e., everything else).

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Re:Using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering... by jhgb on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:18PM (#28486433)
> "front-end" (invocation options, error/status messages, maybe IDE integrations) is very thin

I thought the front end of a compiler was the parser and the associated code analysis steps (such as type checking), not "error messages".

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