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Feb 2, 2020 at 13:11
I've met a bunch of lovely Haskell programmers, but I'm always surprised by the range of PL interests they have. (1) Some are particularly into lazy evaluation. I get it: you can do some really elegant code for some problems. I've enjoyed this in other PLs too.

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Mar 15, 2026 at 20:42
Really elegant developer tool: Go's inline IDE feature is used with deprecation markers, so call sites are autofixed from OldApi() to NewApi() based on the implementation of OldApi.
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In LSP, a position is represented as a line number and a column offset (in Unicode code units): https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#position This is pretty elegant. You'll get the correct line regardless of encoding bugs, and the editor already knows the line number so it's cheap to compute.
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Go has an elegant approach to defining example functions, which are shown in docs as `main()` with the output:
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