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dehsgetoday at 12:16 AM1 replyview on HN

Compilers can never be error free for non trivial statements. This is outlined in Rices theorem. It’s one of the reasons we have observability/telemetry as well as tests.


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CharlieDigitaltoday at 1:42 AM

That's fine, but this also applies to human written code and human written code will have even more variance by skill and experience.