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Written by arosien on 2025-01-15 at 15:54

semi-serious critique: the #fp “expression problem” sounds really stupid, just recompile everything, that’s what we all actually do all day”

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Written by noelwelsh on 2025-01-15 at 16:11

@arosien The cross-backend-ness of solutions to the expression problem is the real win IMO. E.g. Doodle can support backend specific features instead of implementing lowest common denominator or random-crashes-at-runtime bullshit.

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Written by Nicolas Rinaudo on 2025-01-15 at 16:28

@arosien it's less stupid when you think about it in terms of separate compilations. What if you depend on a library maintained and published by somebody else, who just cannot be bothered to recompile and republish whenever you need to add a behaviour? What if instead they just didn't need to?

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