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by staticfloat 2072 days ago
> It’s not a jab at Julia

I didn't take it as such; there are legitimate shortcomings to any tool, I just wanted to provide pointers to other readers that the devs are aware of it, and that there is ongoing development to address it. :)

> Come on, jeez.. Julia’s compiler is a Lisp-based LLVM driver: of course it can do these things.

As someone who, before Julia, was firmly entrenched in C/C++/Python land, I suppose I am discovering many of these "obvious" things for the first time. :)

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> I suppose I am discovering many of these "obvious" things

sorry for the flippant remark then! it's great to be in discover mode, enjoy ;)