Third-person singular present tense: removes syntactic sugar or pleasant-seeming additions from something.
From desugar, the base verb formed from de- + sugar, used in programming contexts since the early 2000s.
When a compiler desugars your code, it's not being mean—it's just translating what you wrote in programmer-friendly language into what the CPU actually needs to execute.
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