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Jul 24, 2015 at 19:48
What's your least favourite Emacs keybinding? I find C-M-x awkward for such a useful command. Moved to C-c e and never looked back.

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When I moved back to the UK, I ordered SIMs for both myself and my wife. We ended up with consecutive numbers! It's really convenient sometimes.
Jan 7, 2023 at 07:33
A survey of parser generator usage in major language implementationss: https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten-parsers-survey-2021.html Most have a handwritten parser. GCC and Go moved from generated to handwritten. SQLite and Python <3.10 built their own parser generators!
Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021 | notes.eatonphil.com
Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021
Jan 5, 2023 at 02:34
Zig has moved to a compiler bootstrap approach that uses webassembly: https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/ They check in the wasm artifact and provide their own wasm compiler. wasm is the most portable backend supported by LLVM. OCaml does something similar! It includes a minimal VM.