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		dboreham on Jan 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Internals of PostgreSQL I've heard the "useful error message" argument, but my personal experience coding modern languages suggests that not much progress has been made on that front. The compiler error message is almost never "useful".

giovannibonetti on Jan 27, 2022 [–]

You might want to check out the Elm compiler: https://elm-lang.org/news/compilers-as-assistants

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