Showing up for a fight on something so ultimately unresolvable as whether to use compiler-based type checking or not offers the thrill of hooliganism

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• A compiler that also serves an IDE has to be lazy and deferred throughout — a different way of building compilers from the one the textbooks teach. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026compilers
• A compiler that names every place a change breaks turns refactoring into fixing errors until the compiler stops shouting. ARAlice Ryhl20 May 2026compilers
• A programming language is not a compiler but an experience: editing, running, debugging and the runtime library all have to fit together as one cycle. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026compilers
• A speed difference between languages that share the LLVM backend measures the benchmark author, not the languages. THThePrimeagen22 Mar 2025compilers
• Agents are the new compilers that compile intent into fast software. GRGuillermo Rauch12 Sept 2026compilers

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