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May 12, 2023 at 06:42
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?

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I've released difftastic 0.65! Highlights of this release: * Better parsing of Clojure, Common Lisp, Kotlin, Rust and Zig. * Quality of life improvements for binary files.
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Which programming languages are the easiest/hardest to google? Go (a common word) and Rust (also a computer game) can both be tricky. Yet I've not seen 'rubylang' used to help Ruby searches. Perhaps a novel word (Kotlin) or a misspelling (Perl) is a better choice for new languages?
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