miniblog.

Bootstrapping a language can be immensely satisfying. I've added the ability to define stub types in the Garden stdlib and suddenly I don't need to special-case Int or String! They're just normal type declarations.

It's a small thing, but I'm much happier with the output of --version in the latest version of difftastic. It shows the release version number, the commit hash, and the commit date. This gives you a sense of the age of release, but you still have a reproducible build (unlike build time). It also shows OS, arch and compiler, because those are common requirements in bug reports.

Blogging about my programming language project: choosing the basic syntax! https://www.garden-lang.org/blog/syntax.html