My First Fifteen Compilers (2019)
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The post discusses the author's experience writing 15 compilers, and the discussion revolves around the technical details and best practices of compiler design, as well as some unrelated tangents.
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I turn mine off, then you force it on me, and CTRL+F4 is an immediate reflex.
What does this do on your computer? On mine it changes the workspace, which makes not much sense in context.
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html -
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
E.g. when JavaScript was designed, they didn't need to know that typescript would be invented to know how JavaScript would look.
At the time (387 points, 76 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15153956 https://archive.is/gUVNw
2019 edit (388 points, 78 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20408011