Autocomplete for keywords is a surprisingly nuanced problem.
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In this case you need to work out what keywords can appear next, and there may be multiple valid syntaxes!
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In this case you want to narrow the modifiers based on context before and after.
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I'm still tinkering with the website for my PL experiment. I want the styling to express "labour of love hobby project".
Choosing what program to show on the home page is really hard too. All the keywords are links like Racket.
What do you think?
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Further tinkering with diagnostics, following feedback!
* Two lines of context above and below now.
* The caret is included in the line below where possible.
* Syntax highlighting of keywords.
I kinda feel that smart context sizing would be better. What do you think so far?
PYPL: PopularitY of Programming Language https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html is a nice PL metrics tracker that's an alternative to TIOBE.
It has a clear methodology and it carefully chooses keywords to avoid e.g. Python metrics being affected by interest in snakes.