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Re:The Internals of PostgreSQL by dboreham on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:42AM (#30101113)
I've heard the "useful error message" argument, but my personal experience coding modern languages suggests that not much progress has been made on that front. The compiler error message is almost never "useful".
Re:The Internals of PostgreSQL by giovannibonetti on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:16AM (#30102321)
You might want to check out the Elm compiler: https://elm-lang.org/news/compilers-as-assistants