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I've had a surprising amount of success asking an LLM to try projects in my toy programming language and report language or tooling issues. Today it noticed that foo(bar,) is syntactically legal but assert(bar,) is not. The parser error is poor in this case too. A real UX bug!

You know a software project has achieved popularity when people are using it on platforms other than Windows/Mac/Linux! For example, I noticed that the cc crate recently had fixes for AIX.

TIL that Rust has a (i) icon that shows relevant traits that a type implements. This is useful to understand that e.g. .iter() on a Vec<T> iterates with &T. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.iter It looks like one of my bug reports was mentioned, so I'm delighted but wish I'd noticed earlier!