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`init` feels like an unhelpful name in OO. It doesn't give you an initial value, it initialises the instance that has already been created. Developers are often surprised that init doesn't return the instance, because they have a strong association with `new Foo()`. Perhaps `finish` would have been a less confusing name?

Copilot doesn't offer a way of disabling completion inside comments. People have discovered a comical workaround: swearing in the comment! https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/8062#discussioncomment-11902740

Today I learnt that Racket *intentionally* doesn't have a traditional REPL workflow. The authors were concerned about students not understanding the state between the current session and the code on disk. (Arguably Jupyter has some of these features now.) https://blog.racket-lang.org/2009/03/the-drscheme-repl-isnt-the-one-in-emacs.html