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by hinkley 103 days ago
It was intended to solve the problem of interactive coding sessions such as with Language Servers, which GCC utterly fails at (because what we think of as modern IDEs did not exist in 1990).

An awful lot of people have tried to use it as a JIT now and had to backpedal. I'm not sure how the one lead to the other but here we are.