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Apr 20, 2026 at 20:32
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LLMs are surprisingly good at reducing crash samples. I've had success with "this project crashes my static analysis tool with the following command, try to shrink the repro whilst preserving the crash. Commit each smaller version to a branch".

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An excellent review of the V language and the features it promotes: https://mawfig.github.io/2022/06/18/v-lang-in-2022.html The code samples are a great example of how you do PL work: you learn about the intended semantics and try to write programs that are broken in interesting ways.
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I haven't seen any docs that make it easy to transition from "here's a usage example" to "use this functionality in your project". I've seen "add foolib==1.2 to your clipboard" for easy installation, but could we do the same for code samples?