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by rachitnigam 1619 days ago
[OP] Yup, that was the intent. I've seen a lot of academic and industrial hand wringing about not wanting to build a compiler because it's an overkill for the solution only to have the people come back 6 months later having built a compiler.

I'm not saying everyone should build a compiler for everything–but when you should build a compiler, you really should bite the bullet and build a compiler.