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		arcticbull on Nov 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: D compilation is too slow and I am forking the com... It's cool but you can't un-write to disk, or un-send network packets making its applicability limited.

tylerhou on Nov 21, 2018 [–]

> you can’t un-write to disk

Why not? (Experimental) versioned file systems exist.

arcticbull on Nov 25, 2018 | [–]

I think the broader point I'm making is that these time traveling debuggers can't work in the general case due to externalities.

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