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I'm playing with DOT output for debugging syntax trees from difftastic. Here's an F# snippet, the Debug representation, and the DOT rendered as an image. I'm pleased with the information density on the graphic, but we'll see how often I end up using it.

It's interesting to see the "why not Rust?" discussions around the TypeScript news that they're using Go. It shows that Rust has reached a level of maturity that it's a default for some users. Go does seem to be in a sweet spot for AOT languages with GC though.

I've been experimenting with an 'evaluate up to cursor' mode for my PL project. I love evaluating self-contained snippets in Lisp, this generalises the idea. The interpreter remembers the arguments when you run tests, then can re-use them when you say 'eval up to here'. What do you think?