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Blogged: Devlog 2: The Importance of Sandboxing Exploring PL opportunities when you have a first-class sandbox.

It's so easy to overlook the importance of tooling around a language, unlike (say) syntax. Are there any languages that explicitly put tooling first? Maybe Kotlin or Pharo?

https://elm-lang.org/news/compiler-errors-for-humans mentions the importance of layout and paragraphs for compile error messages. Perhaps tools should do line wrapping if the terminal is very wide? It's definitely more comfortable to read.