Just made the mistake of reading comments on some YouTube videos. It would be really had to satirise them, they're that bad.
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ASTs typically discard comments, and that's usually what you want.
The only time (AFAICS) that preserving comments is useful is for writing a code formatter.
Could you write a formatter in terms of a list of lexemes? A CST is a non-trivial bit of code for one use case.
Is there a programming equivalent of the strawberry problem, i.e. a specific coding task that LLMs are consistently bad at?
Playing with Claude and my new programming language has made me add features that it wants. I think they're reasonable.
`for method in methods` -- custom syntax error explaining that `method` is a reserved word
`echo 'println("hello world")' | garden` -- eval snippets from stdin