flofriday
@flofriday.bsky.social
Computer science student finishing my masters at TU Wien. Fascinated by all aspects of computing but currently enjoying my deep fall down the compiler engineering rabbit hole. Previously worked on the Kotlin compiler. flofriday.dev github.com/flofriday
Join Florian Freitag (@flofriday.bsky.social) at EuroPython for "How CPythons Errors keep getting better" Talk: ep2026.europython.eu/DWBGJ9
If you are interested in compilers and in Vienna, tomorrow 11:00 at @tuwien.at is the guest lecture "Compiler Development in Industry". @jozott.bsky.social and I will be talking about our experience with Kotlin, but other talks include Swift and GraalVM among others. Hope to see you there 😊
Inspired by @giacomocavalieri.me recent post on snapshot testing, I wrote up some experience on how I applied to and improved it for compiler testing. flofriday.dev/posts/compil...
Compiler testing can be even more fun actually
Compilers must be stable, really stable, but at least we can make testing them a lot of fun.
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In the upcoming 2026.1 release of JetBrains IDEs, we’re upgrading one of the core parts of editing: caret movement and text selection. Try the new smooth‑caret options in the Early Access Program builds and share your feedback: https://jb.gg/261caret
Editor Improvements: Smooth Caret Animation and New Selection Behavior | The JetBrains Platform Blog
We’re continuing to modernize our IDEs, and in this update we’ve refreshed something you interact with constantly – the editor. These changes are designed to provide improved comfort, a cleaner look,
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I definitely perfected the art of nerdsniping myself into obscure side projects. This weeks flavor requires 15 python versions in a single container with the older ones needing to be built from source 😅
Some Kotlin highlighting bug in @compiler-explorer.com sent me down a rabbit whole of formal grammars, lexers and contributing to tools I use daily. flofriday.dev/posts/50-sha...
50uL Shades of Kotlin: Why your numbers long for color
A highlighting bug sent me down a rabbit hole of grammars, lexers and contributions.
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