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On the challenge of writing accurate source spans on Unicode source code: https://reedmullanix.com/posts/unicode-source-spans.html Also (see footnotes) a fair number of LSP clients assume UTF-8 despite early versions of LSP mandating UTF-16!

I'm fascinated to learn that people are discovering weaknesses in state-of-the-art bots for playing Go, such that a novice player can reliably win: https://goattack.far.ai/human-evaluation This suggests that self-play doesn't always generalise: it's not sufficient to beat earlier versions.

Contrasting a Rust specification (being worked on) with a Rust ISO standard (which may not work as well as the existing RFC process), and backward compatibility promises: https://blog.m-ou.se/rust-standard/ (The entire Rust ecosystem is run against new rustc versions surprisingly often too)