>I had never seen a computer crash because an IDE was trying to figure out how to parse a program before
This happens daily on my Intel MBP in Xcode. In only a ~15k LoC small app, 99% Swift. I’ve had to break up several functions into smaller ones purely because the compiler chokes so easily. They actually have a dedicated error message to the tune of “couldn’t figure out types here, could you break this function up please?”.
But yeah, outside of that I’ve never seen it happen in major languages using major language tooling. Never even saw it in 5 million+ line C/C++/.NET CLR mixed codebases.
This happens daily on my Intel MBP in Xcode. In only a ~15k LoC small app, 99% Swift. I’ve had to break up several functions into smaller ones purely because the compiler chokes so easily. They actually have a dedicated error message to the tune of “couldn’t figure out types here, could you break this function up please?”.
But yeah, outside of that I’ve never seen it happen in major languages using major language tooling. Never even saw it in 5 million+ line C/C++/.NET CLR mixed codebases.