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JVMLS 2015 - Compilers are Databases

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JVMLS 2015 - Compilers are Databases

Martin Odersky's JVM Language Summit 2015 talk argues that compilers can be thought of as databases. It describes design ideas for the Scala compiler and for developer tools.

Cited as the origin of the compilers-as-databases idea in discussions of IDEs and incremental tooling.

4 Hacker News mentions · 2016–2022

Topics

  • Compilers, interpreters & program analysis
  • Databases & storage
  • Functional programming

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