Comment by hctaw

I downvoted it because I think it's a meme that ignores where contemporary compiler engineering is happening. We don't even realize they exist anymore - V8, Graal, Roslyn, etc are all optimizing JIT compilers running in the background that can compile multiple languages on the fly. And they do a great job.

Not everything is a C++ compiler, which is inherently difficult to compile correctly. Let alone quickly.

I think the future of compilers is that everything will have an incremental parser and JIT compiler with optional AOT compilation for release builds. Hopefully LSP and DAP will take over the world of tooling integration.

There are other fundamental mistakes to look at than error messages and performance, like pretending that build systems don't exist and that linking multiple compilation units isn't something the compiler can do. Compiling code is getting much easier, but building it is much harder. Compilers have the most information and internal structure to handle all our build problems, but don't do it.