I've been playing with GitHub Copilot, and it feels unlike any other completion tool I've used. In a bunch of cases, it can write short snippets that are exactly what I want.
(I tested it on a toy interpreter I'm working on. I'm tweaking how statements are represented.)
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I'm experimenting with imitating window UI elements when showing code snippets on my website.
What do you think? Do the familiar dots of the title bar help, or is it just confusing decoration?
First image is the current style, the second image has the window UI.
I've added an eval button to the website of my programming language!
It's a been a lot of work to lock down appropriately. It still needs some UI polish but it's so nice to be able to try snippets immediately.
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
