Twitter treats #foo and $bar as special syntax due to emergent behaviour of users.
I keep seeing similar emergent features in other domains, e.g. airport wifi using '_Foo Wifi' to ensure it's sorted first. Ideally there'd be a priority flag, so a printer is never shown first.
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The author of rust-analyzer discussing how language features help or hinder fast IDEs.
If you allow `from m import *` you can't analyse files in isolation, and it's even harder in Rust.
I think you could build an interesting IDE with a tiny embedded LLM in addition to the usual tooling.
Features like 'extract method' would be much nicer if an LLM could provide a name. Choosing a good name is virtually impossible from just a typed AST.
For hobby projects, I really like software where I can do small features or tweaks. Sometimes I don't have time for anything more substantial.
Website projects are great for this. Are there other areas?