Advice from one of the authors of Common Lisp on PL work: established languages tend to win in their domain. It really helps if you enjoy working in this space.
(There is a ton of PL skill and insight in the smaller languages IME.)
https://pldb.com/posts/scottFalhmanInterview.html
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Some novel (to me) AI workflows from OpenAI in https://openai.com/index/open-source-codex-orchestration-symphony/
(1) Adding the ability for the LLM to create follow-up tasks in the issue tracker.
(2) Identifying weaknesses in the spec by implementing in several different languages.
It's funny how languages can offer multiple forms of syntax, but formatters standardise to a single form.
E.g. single vs double quotes in JS, optional semicolons in JS, different ways of grouping imports in Rust.
Should new languages be more syntactically opinionated?
Difftastic 0.69 is out! This is a pretty big release:
* Semantically insignificant commas are now ignored
* Difftastic now respects .gitattributes
* Added assembly support and improved 13 other languages
