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Improve runtime error messages

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start by reading this issue together with issue #31, which discusses switching to bytecode or another IR as a target language. The issue does not name files, tests, or specific runtime messages, so the scope and definition of done need to be established before implementation.

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Description

enhancement

This may be difficult/impossible without switching to bytecode (or some other IR) as a target language (#31).

Dominant language
Java
Stars
6
Forks
7
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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