Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction [video]
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderAnders Hejlsberg wrote the first mass-market Compiler+IDE with Turbo Pascal. What was unique is that TP would automatically bring up the editor and position the cursor on the offending error. Seems trivial now, but it was a game changer for writing code on a PC. TP sold for around $49. The competitor, Pascal MT+, sold for $400. I doubt if Anders would remember me, but I was lucky enough to be contracted by Borland to write their first test suite…
One take away for me was: Language designers & compiler writers today need to consider editor support as one of their goals. On the top page there's another thread about rust-analyzer vs RLS. What Aleksey said[0] about RLS that "[RLS's] current architecture is not a good foundation for a perfect IDE long-term," feels similar to my coworker's conclusion in her effort to provide better editor support for PHP[1]. Parsers for compiling code into machine-executables vs parsers to serve LSP responses…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 384
- Total comments
- 80
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-12 | Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction [video]First breakout · Best thread | ingve | 191 | 40 |
| 2017-08-19 | Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction | youjiuzhifeng | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-05-18 | Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction | Foe | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-02-02 | Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction (2016) [video]Latest 20+ point return | ehaskins | 187 | 40 |