miniblog.

Rust's dbg! macro (new in 1.32) is delightful. You write dbg!(my_var) and you get a print statement that writes: [src/my_file.rs:123] my_var = "value of my_var" It's a huge ergonomic help when debugging!

Component-Based Synthesis for Complex APIs: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~isil/sypet-popl17.pdf An incredible paper demonstrating synthesis of significantly sized pieces of Java code! You write a test case, and SyPet writes the code.

TIL about an incredible Microsoft tool that automatically writes code that works with the examples provided: