Matt #Godbolt bravely tackles the monumental challenge of creating #URLs that last forever—because we all desperately need browser tabs from 2012 🌐🔗. Turns out, cramming an entire compiler state into a URL just might not be the pinnacle of efficiency 🧐. But fear not, Google has come to the rescue, because who doesn't love outsourcing their problems to the tech overlords? 👾
https://xania.org/202505/compiler-explorer-urls-forever #Matt #CompilerState #BrowserTabs #TechOverlords #HackerNews #ngated
Compiler Explorer and the Promise of URLs That Last Forever — Matt Godbolt’s blog

How we're preserving 12,000 legacy links as Google's URL shortener rides into the sunset