When I first learnt VCS, I focused on history. It was only later I realised that it's wonderful for temporary notes too.
I write a lot of `// here` and `// here?` comments now, as I can easily discard them once I've committed the interesting bit.
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I'm experimenting with diagnostics formatting.
* I've added a left margin, showing both the file name and line numbers
* I'm showing one line of context above/below the offending line.
* I'm using grey for comments.
What do you think? Is there anything you'd change?
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Copilot doesn't offer a way of disabling completion inside comments. People have discovered a comical workaround: swearing in the comment!
JSON is too small (no comments) and YAML is too big (many string syntaxes, relatively few implementations).
TOML is in the sweet spot for complexity, but I agree this syntax is by far the most confusing part.
TOML 1.1 improves it at least: