It recently clicked for me that we mostly discuss "better error messages" in terms of their first-order improvements to developer experience, but not the second-order goal of helping people re-conceptualize compiler errors as helpful guidance rather than an implacable buzzkill.https://twitter.com/sliminality/status/1140838786043002881 …
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Error messages are underrated as a technical problem IMO. Good errors involve: - Pedagogy: how to effectively explain an error - Causation: how to identify the root cause of an error - Provenance: how to track code lineage across IRs - Interface: how to visualize error details
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