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Semantic modeling in Rust

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, a compiler infrastructure such as Roslyn and maybe the JavaParser's symbol solver defines a semantic model with an unified semantic data type often ...
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Why are symbols (especially static/internal symbols) necessary?

Compiled languages seem to always have to attach some name to any global object, such as a function or global variable, even after they are compiled, but not local variables. As such, languages such ...
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Supporting a statically-typed language in an IDE?

I'm almost finishing my open-source language's verifier. It performs parsing and verification, which ensures a set of programs are valid both syntatically and semantically at compile-time. To start ...
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Compile-time reference resolution across Java-like packages

In my language that is similiar to Java, one type from a program's package block can rely on the type of another program's ...
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