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Test code is total: we require it to always terminate or it's a failure! It also typically has 100% line and branch coverage. I feel way less nervous about refactoring tests, you can always just run them.

A pleasant surprise: updating the direct dependencies in difftastic has reduced the total transitive dependencies. I wasn't expecting that.

Counter-intuitively, if you're writing a parser for a programming language, you need it to be a total function. As soon as you build IDE tooling, you need ASTs from invalid or incomplete input. The parser should return (Ast, List<Error>) rather than Result<Ast, Error>.