Pharo is moving away from representing instance variables and methods as strings. Instead, they're more powerful objects! https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/MarcusDenker/lecture-27685035
This enables autogenerating accessors, ORM style relationships, and easier static analysis of methods.
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I'm super impressed by how many lint rules can be implemented with just eslint's no-restricted-syntax and selectors. Example:
{
selector: "ExportNamedDeclaration[declaration=null][source=null]",
message: "Add `export` directly to the function instead of a block export."
}
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Playing with optional type signatures in Python, I realise that the return type is the most important to me.
I'd much rather have a function with only a return type instead of a function with only parameter types. It's often quick to add too.
I've written my first man page! https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/commit/cb63ca88303d3c8dffd763cf6e5772e45c045588
Troff syntax is new to me and a little hard to read -- apparently you shouldn't use blank lines. Turns out you can use pandoc to convert markdown to troff instead.