Wilfred miniblog

The author of nasm-mode has a great opinionated blogpost on different assemblers and their advantages/disadvantages:

Current status: replacing prog2, an emacs lisp special form, with a macro: https://gitlab.com/wilfred/emacs/commit/91967f11ed8a69ea29215e8219cafaef5f550fe2 Unsure if there's interest upstream.

Rust's error messages can refer to multiple parts of code, and include increasing amounts of prose: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-come.html looks promising!

Design for experts; accomodate beginners https://pchiusano.github.io/2016-02-25/tech-adoption.html (on the relationship between language power, learning curve, and adoption)

Current status: experimenting with CI for @guilelang!

I think three months is the perfect length for a side project. Long enough to build something cool without getting sick of it.

I end up regularly rebasing my feature branches as I work. Are branches the best abstraction? Perhaps patch sets are better.

Emacs command of the day: vc-region-history. This hidden gem shows a log of VCS changes in the current region!

A 500 line C program implementing a respectable amount of Common Lisp!

A cute touch in Emacs 25.1: executing the bytecode of a macro teaches Emacs to highlight it!

I've been kicking the tires on GitLab. It's not quite a snappy as GitHub, but the feature set is excellent.

Rust 1.12 now supports coercing values of type T to type Option<T>! https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/34828 Introduces some interesting API possibilities.