Why Do We Need Compilers?

Conclusion

machines were expensive

memory was expensive

memory sharing needed

time-sharing needed

machines are inexpensive and abundant

memory sharing is discouraged

memory is inexpensive and abundant

time-sharing no longer needed

Cull - Remove Concern For Efficiency - What Remains?

implementing only type checking would be less work than building a whole compiler

Conclusion

developers need full-blown REPL interpreted versions of every language, with full introspection.

Every language can be interpreted

Only some languages can be compiled

Conclusion

use only for Production Engineering

don’t need introspection in Production Engineered code

Conclusion

Type Checking

full blown inspection of every variable in any scope

same language as source language

mutation of any variable in scope

create new functions at REPL command line

email: paultarvydas@gmail.com

Discord: Programming Simplicity all welcome, I invite more discussion of these topics, esp. regarding Drawware and 0D

X (Twitter): @paul_tarvydas

obsidian blogs (see blogs that begin with a date 202x-xx-xx-)

(WIP Books) leanpub