A developer argues that query-based compilers, while popular for enabling incremental compilation in IDEs, have fundamental limitations based on language design and dependency structures. The author contends that languages like Zig achieve better performance by designing features to allow coarse-grained, independent compilation tasks rather than relying on fine-grained query dependency tracking from the outset.
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A developer argues that query-based compilers, while popular for enabling incremental compilation in IDEs, have fundamental limitations based on language design and dependency structures. The author contends that languages like Zig achieve better performance by designing features to allow coarse-grained, independent compilation tasks rather than relying on fine-grained query dependency tracking from the outset.