I tried tree-sitter today and it's exceptionally good.
The tooling is wonderful: the basic tutorial shows you how to define a grammar, a test suite, and provides a convenient CLI for generating efficient C parsers!
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When I moved back to the UK, I ordered SIMs for both myself and my wife. We ended up with consecutive numbers!
It's really convenient sometimes.
I'm designing a programming language and trying to decide the type of `let x = 1;`. Should it be Unit or Int?
Advantage of Int: really convenient when evaluating snippets in a REPL.
Advantage of Unit: It's much less confusing when type inference runs on an incomplete function.
I've been really enjoying paru as a pacman substitute on Arch Linux: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru
It allows you to update both normal and AUR packages in one go, which is super convenient. It also shows you PKGBUILD files, so there's still a human audit step for AUR.