Comment by Jyaif

7 years ago

“In terms of sexiness, compilers are pretty much as boring as it gets,”

That bit surprised me. For me it doesn't get much sexier than compilers.

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ineedasername  7 years ago

Yeah. Maybe that's the outside view, or view from the surface level folks concerned with the next shiny framework, but I think the best engineers are always at least a little enamored with deeper nuts and bolts.

  • AlexCoventry  7 years ago

    I think he meant the business side isn't going to give a damn about a compiler.

    • ineedasername  7 years ago

      That makes sense. At least, outside of massive companies like Google, who would see the value in a compiler that optimized code for their use even a fraction of a percent better. Then compilers become the "shiny object" for them.

amelius  7 years ago

Writing a modern concurrent garbage collector is as complicated as writing a compiler, to a great degree because of their "real time" constraints and concurrency.

But to call them sexy is another thing ...