Powerful reflective systems like Pharo or Emacs can be broken in all sorts of exotic ways.
Today I defined:
BaseFoo class>>#name
self subclassReponsibility
and the entire IDE locked up! With great programming power comes great responsibility I suppose.
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Delighted to see that TOML has released a new version! TOML is overall a great standard but I understand they had limited people with the power to cut a new release.
https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/releases/tag/1.1.0
Sometimes programming tools are so good that you miss them when using other languages. I see these mentioned the most frequently:
* IntelliJ (for Java)
* Slime+Emacs (for Common Lisp)
* Pharo (for Smalltalk)
I'm struck that they all have bespoke UIs.
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.