GitHub is adding an API that will allow linters to automatically fix your code for you: https://blog.github.com/changelog/2018-05-23-request-actions-on-checks/
I suppose it's the next logical step, but it will be lovely when I can apply compiler fixits from the comfort of a PR :)
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Today I learnt that `cargo fix` won't fix code with compiler errors by default, but you can override this!
$ cargo fix --broken-code --allow-dirty && cargo clippy --fix --allow-dirty
This incantation does exactly what I wanted :)
One day I am going to reach the height of technological sophistication, and every clock in my house will handle daylight savings automatically.
I'm not there yet. I think modern appliances are getting better though.
(Does a microwave really need to know the current time?)
I would have thought that invoking a C compiler would be a solved problem. Looking at Rust's cc crate there's a remarkable long tail of corner cases to fix.
Exotic CPUs, microarchitectures, compiler differences, operating system differences, etc.
https://github.com/rust-lang/cc-rs/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md