One of the challenges with PLs that build on top of others (Typescript to JS, Scala/Clojure to Java, C++ to C) is documentation. You often have to read two sets of docs with two distinct syntaxes.
Which languages do this best? Sometimes I wish there was a TS version of MDN.
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Should lint suppressions be first class syntax or comments?
Adding a proper metadata system (e.g. Clojure or Rust) is a big design space but it's clear which expressions are affected.
Comments are much easier to implement but it's easy for users to get them wrong.
Thoughts?
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I've released difftastic 0.65! Highlights of this release:
* Better parsing of Clojure, Common Lisp, Kotlin, Rust and Zig.
* Quality of life improvements for binary files.
tap> is an elegant Clojure debugging feature: it passes the argument to any functions registered with add-tap.
You might set up a custom printer for your data type, or save values for later examination, and you can easily disable the tap too.
