My new diff tool is now sufficiently feature complete that it can diff its own source code!
I've found a bunch of new bugs, but that's dogfooding :)
miniblog.
Related Posts
Over a sufficiently long time horizon, all code you write is legacy code.
zsh is generally wonderful, and it's sufficiently like bash/POSIX sh that it works.
However, it uses 1-indexed arrays, whereas bash uses 0-indexed arrays. This totally caught me out.
Choosing a syntax for a new programming language is hard. You want to be similar enough to an established language to avoid scaring off users.
You still want to be sufficiently novel to be recognisable. Which languages do this well?