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The author of rust-analyzer discussing how language features help or hinder fast IDEs. If you allow `from m import *` you can't analyse files in isolation, and it's even harder in Rust.

I'm surprised there are so few programming languages with a built-in database that you can query for facts about definitions. For example, list all the functions that take three arguments. We have self-hosting compilers, why not self-host code exploration APIs?

It's such a shame there isn't structured data in commit messages. I can't query for the commit that fixes the most bugs or filter commits to only show feature additions. We need a JSON of commit message syntax so we can start building tools.