One weird consequence of having '() and nil being the same in elisp: the following function is legal:
(defun foo nil 1)
It kinda makes sense, but it does read strangely.
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Igalia's post on self-hosting CI runners is a masterclass in build engineering. It shows dealing with weird API constraints, but still finding good designs.
I also learnt that some CI systems use OCR on Apple's installers to automate!
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I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics.
It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.
It feels like a mature software project is one where bugs require multiple commits to fix.
You've hammered out the basic issues, so the remaining issues are often weird interactions between components.