Happy 10th Birthday Compiler Explorer

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by fcambus • 4 years ago

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mk12• 4 years ago

Congratulations! Compiler Explorer has been immensely useful to me over the years. I often use it to reassure myself that simple code optimizes as expected (so manual optimization would not just be premature, but pointless). It inspired me to build a similar tool at work for FIDL: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fidlbolt/+/refs/heads/main. I believe your last name has become a noun too — I sometimes forget it’s called Compiler Explorer since everyone I know just calls it Godbolt.

wyldfire• 4 years ago

Thanks, Matt!

injidup2• 4 years ago

I'm training a new hire in C++ at the moment. I always go to compiler explorer when I break out a new concept for him. We can workshop the problem in isolation quickly and simply and then bookmark the solution for him to use as reference later. For this purpose it is just a few steps simpler than GIT + CMAKE + TERMINAL

curiousgal• 4 years ago

Tangent but I'll be starting a new job in a few months where they use C++ (bank), do you have any tips/resources?

injidup2• 4 years ago

That's a pretty vague spec. If you are starting a ne job I'd ask the people who have hired you to supply info about what they think you need to know. Ask if there will be training and/or mentoring. C++ is a beast and if have no experience then it's a long way to the top.

Short of that Google "modern C++ tutorial" and go from there.

Also project Euler. Try to solve the problems in C++ and see how you go.

vchuravy• 4 years ago

"Just godbolt it" has indeed become a phrase in my circle. Compiler explorer is a great reminder that sometimes it is indeed about the UX for system tools that allows you to make a huge impact

adamnemecek• 4 years ago

Legit one of the best websites around and I have seen a website or two (not more than like five).

koala_man• 4 years ago

One of my favorite moments at work was coming back to see half the team gathered around one computer, chuckling to each other.

The guy at the keyboard said "now watch this!", hit a few keys, and the team erupted in raucous laughter.

I went over to see what they were looking at. It was an assembly listing from Compiler Explorer.

marcianx• 4 years ago

I wonder whether he was demonstrating this: https://youtu.be/w0sz5WbS5AM?t=1168

baisq• 4 years ago

Ah, so Godbolt is some guy's last name? That's really cool.

toredo• 4 years ago

I use godbolt (I dont call it compiler explorer) almost every day.

It's just great and extremely useful:)! Thanks for it

MauranKilom• 4 years ago

As one of those people who also uses "godbolt" as a verb, I am very grateful for the time Matt and the other contributors are pouring into CE. It's awesome to see this project flourish!

isabelk• 4 years ago

Matt Godbolt is a gem! If you haven’t checked out his podcast[0] with Ben Rady, it’s one of my personal favorites. It’s not specifically tied to C++, but it’s a lot of fun to hear two hosts who love thinking about programming.

[0] https://www.twoscomplement.org/

mattgodbolt• 4 years ago

Oh my gosh. Thanks for all the lovely comments! I'll definitely be saving these up for any dark moments! Thanks all!

ziml77• 4 years ago

I don't have a cohesive enough thought to make a top level comment, but I want to add another thumbs up for Compiler Explorer. It's been awesome and I love all the compiler and language options. Thank you for making and hosting such a useful tool!

AndrewOMartin• 4 years ago

Compiler Explorer is one of the few things that makes me want to work in a lower level language than Python.

TheAceOfHearts• 4 years ago

Godbolt is really one of the most useful web tools I've ever used, a massive thank you for the service.

mncharity• 4 years ago

Some tools inspire simply by existing ("... oh yeah, and then we could use godbolt, and ..."). Just as some tooling gaps discourage ("... aannd then we'd hit the same old familiar problem of X, sigh"). So broader impact can extend even beyond use and its results. Thanks for all the years of fish, both caught and dreamt.

22SAS• 4 years ago

As a C++ dev, compiler explorer has been a great tool. Not only for quick checks, or playing around with new C++ features via small programs; even for code reviews it's a great way to show why doing something in a particular way is better via a snippet on compiler explorer.

I am in the same industry as Matt, and at my firm we use it a lot, all the time, to discuss things related to C++ features, and sometimes the quirks of the language/compilers.

adchari• 4 years ago

Compiler Explorer was used to teach some basics of compiler optimization in my computer architecture class a couple of years ago, but the About Me page was the first time I had heard about SWEs working in quantitative finance. I'm starting at a trading firm in a couple of weeks, so thank you Matt Godbolt for sending me down that particular rabbithole!

Happy 10th Birthday Compiler Explorer

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