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Should lint suppressions be first class syntax or comments? Adding a proper metadata system (e.g. Clojure or Rust) is a big design space but it's clear which expressions are affected. Comments are much easier to implement but it's easy for users to get them wrong. Thoughts?

For my personal server, I deploy services with docker and update with watchtower. It works OK, but I'd love to have a proper configuration as code approach. I want a git commit to change a file that says which version should be live, and then CI should deploy that.

A wonderful article explaining how compiler drivers work, clarifying the relationship between the preprocessor, the compiler proper, and the linker: