Today I'm playing with Pollen, a 'programmable publishing system'. It lets you intermingle prose and code definitions. https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/Backstory.html
Racket promotes defining new languages, so it's a great fit there. The syntax feels lighter than TeX too.
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Today I learnt that Racket *intentionally* doesn't have a traditional REPL workflow. The authors were concerned about students not understanding the state between the current session and the code on disk.
(Arguably Jupyter has some of these features now.)
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2009/03/the-drscheme-repl-isnt-the-one-in-emacs.html
Delighted to see that TOML has released a new version! TOML is overall a great standard but I understand they had limited people with the power to cut a new release.
https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/releases/tag/1.1.0
I'm intrigued to see that Google has quantified that new code is generally buggier and less secure than code that has existed in your codebase for longer: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html