RE: https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e/117446233244745253
This is so true -- compilers are political.
For a while I've seen this as a litmus test of how people think about technology. The young and green might not have thought about things this way. The older and/or wiser either know it, or choose not to.
(I'd expand this from compilers to any infrastructure, tool or technology, that has a "downstream" i.e. whose users/subjects are not the same people as its designers/investors. But compilers are a very good example....)
I wrote this before #genAI, and I think it might be of interest.
"The politics of writing compilers"
Whoever controls the compiler has some power over the users (both the programmers and the end users), and therefore compilers are political objects.
https://limited.systems/articles/politics-of-compiler-writing/
