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Circle frontend, that includes all C++17 (when it was current) and the Rust related extensions, was implemented by a single guy.

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You mean Circle can output correct intermediate code for the latest gcc code? Or valve mesa aco code?

That frontend plugs into LLVM for the IR to machine code part, no need for GCC.

It replaces clang, it is not a fork of it.

I thought it was using libfirm... not that c++ diarrhea of llvm... :(

Relativity was discovered by a single guy.

Which confirms complex matters aren't an issue, being able to handle them might be.

wrong, point missed by miles away.

Maybe, "normal"/"average" devs would help you to get the point.

Those can keep up with Go, as per the language authors point of view regarding target audience.

AI????

Not really. Relativity goes back to Galileo at least, and it's development by Einstein relied on Lorentz and Riemann among others. Science really is a process of /standing on the shoulders of giants/ as Newton is reputed to have said.

That doesn't diminish Einstein's achievement of course.

I made a facetious comment to parry that of pjmlp, whom also made a facetious comment wrt to compiler complexity and what "one person" can do.

https://github.com/seanbaxter/circle

It is like if one tried claiming that Fabrice Bellard was an example of a median dev.

The number of C++ compilers written by one person is one. And because of this, it gives us no predictive power in what pjmlp was trying to assert.

I agree with you, Albert and Lorentz and Riemann got caught in the rhetorical crossfire.

Not exactly the same but here https://github.com/robertoraggi/cplusplus there is one person serious effort to create a C++-23 compiler front end.

It does look serious, and is able to parse one simple case I got at hand that openwatcom and orangec failed, thanks for bringing it up.

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