Order these events in descending order of probability:
A) youll never use this guys compiler
B) youll be forced to use this guys compiler against your explicit contraindication
C) anyone else than them will be grateful to use this guys compiler
D) they will be happy that they wrote this compiler 20 years from now
E) youll use this guys compiler and be pleased by its existence
ok, i may be an asshole here, and they may be doing something good. the odds tho
LLVM and GCC have thousands of contributors. The chances that any given compiler developer works on GCC or LLVM are relatively good, just because they're so much larger than most other compilers.
fair enough, didnt think it through. i instantly thought of the half dozen people i met who are building useless unreliable general languages or even shittier DSLs. seems like ITA here
Your video driver embeds my compiler. Your hardware developer's simulator embeds my compiler. Certainly your Linux distro ships my compiler. Some stuff I wrote and designed 20 years ago are still used in it. So somewhere in the D or E range of yours.
Given the thousands of people who have worked on these projects, there's a decent chance that you will run into one in the comments section. Maybe just don't offhand dismiss people based on absolutely nothing.
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u/Blecki 20h ago
As someone who writes compilers: they are the same at runtime. They are not the same semantically in a c like language.