Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

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The Java compiler API provides incremental compilation at the level of files: you can create a long-lived instance of the Java compiler, and as the user edits, you only need to recompile files that ...