"Real languages start with all types on the left, and then drift to the right in old age. Like people."
Fun, tongue-in-cheek review of Rust.
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Today in cursed C code:
void foo(int32_t int32_t, int32_t bar);
Since C puts identifiers and typedefs in the same namespace, this code just produces a confusing compile error about the type of bar!
(This occurred in some real code after macro expansion.)
I'm looking at adding bitwise AND and OR to my programming language. Do I add & and | operators, methods x.and(y) or a library bitwise::and(x, y)?
My inclination is to add infix operators (concise and familiar) but syntax is such precious real estate.
I've been impressed with code written by Fable in my testing:
Difftastic: found small optimisations in a hot loop I'd already profiled extensively. Helped me prototype Dijkstra to A* too (hard to find a good heuristic).
Garden: Found some real bugs in my simplistic typechecker.