Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
by sitkack on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:47AM
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Relativity was discovered by a single guy.
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Which confirms complex matters aren't an issue, being able to handle them might be.
Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
by sylware on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:28AM
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wrong, point missed by miles away.
Maybe, "normal"/"average" devs would help you to get the point.
Those can keep up with Go, as per the language authors point of view regarding target audience.
Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
by sylware on Friday February 21, 2025 @06:27PM
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AI????
Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
by ninalanyon on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:56AM
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Not really. Relativity goes back to Galileo at least, and it's development by Einstein relied on Lorentz and Riemann among others. Science really is a process of /standing on the shoulders of giants/ as Newton is reputed to have said.
That doesn't diminish Einstein's achievement of course.
Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
by sitkack on Friday February 21, 2025 @11:02AM
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I made a facetious comment to parry that of pjmlp, whom also made a facetious comment wrt to compiler complexity and what "one person" can do.
https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle
It is like if one tried claiming that Fabrice Bellard was an example of a median dev.
The number of C++ compilers written by one person is one. And because of this, it gives us no predictive power in what pjmlp was trying to assert.
I agree with you, Albert and Lorentz and Riemann got caught in the rhetorical crossfire.
Re:TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
by mingodad on Friday February 21, 2025 @11:56AM
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Not exactly the same but here https://github.com/robertoraggi/cplusplus there is one person serious effort to create a C++-23 compiler front end.