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by ModernMech
1621 days ago
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This happens to so many people, it’s a tale as old as programming languages. If you ever find yourself saying “wouldn’t it be neat…” or “if I could just only…”, stop yourself immediately — you may be about to accidentally spend the next 3-5 years writing a compiler. So many compilers started out looking to implement small feature X, and then ended up spending ungodly amounts of time writing an entire compiler instead. The scariest thing about compilers is by writing one, it induces a kind of amnesia where you can’t remember why you started writing it in the first place! Soon enough the point of the compiler is to write the compiler, and feature X goes unimplemented. Eventually it will be possible once the compiler is done. But the compiler is never done… never… done… |
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