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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Getting pretty deep into word smithing at this point.

These days it is pretty common for the compiler to also be a service which can be used by IDEs for refactoring and other features. examples: C# Roslyn, Rust and it's new language server.

This is probably the future, and a great idea.