Excellent candid description of the experience of creating a programming language:
miniblog.
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I travelled recently with six electronic devices, and every single one used USB-C for charging. It was wonderful, and not an experience I've had before.
Today I learnt that A* doesn't work for an arbitrary non-planar graph, you need additional structure:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/26568552/509706
This matches my experience with difftastic so far. The graph is non-planar and my best heuristic only matches Dijkstra perf in typical cases.
Reflecting on the niceties and tricky parts of building systems with OCaml: https://borretti.me/article/two-years-ocaml
(The author's experience match my own in a bunch of cases.)
