alt Hacker NewsNow I'm wishing for a single cross-language library, that I can somehow inject into every compiler/runtime/checker to get this, but with a single source of truth and across a wide range of languages. I hit this damn issue all the time, writing code in one language for another, would truly be a bliss to have that problem solved once and for all.
If you had a "canonical datastructure database", you could have very short annotations on every standard library for any language that indexes a function to their canonical name. After that you only need to update the database.