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by TooBrokeToBeg 2893 days ago
The compiler can do anything a linter can do. Multi-pass multithreaded compilers are not unheard of. eg While compiling to temporary storage, I do a linting in another thread. At the end, check for successes and move the artifacts into the output directory.
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What the poster means is that a compiler may not be as applicable to interpreted languages.