010 Editor has a really cute hex editor: you teach it the data structure, and it enables structured editing! https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/templates.html
Related Posts
Today I learnt that Lua projects often use *3* spaces for indentation! https://github.com/luarocks/lua-style-guide/blob/master/README.md#indentation-and-formatting
I initially thought something was very wrong with editor config.
Really cute approach to reporting type errors: when there's a type error, show an example of a runtime error that the type check has prevented!
Data-Driven Techniques for Type Error Diagnosis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59s4h4pv
In LSP, a position is represented as a line number and a column offset (in Unicode code units): https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#position
This is pretty elegant. You'll get the correct line regardless of encoding bugs, and the editor already knows the line number so it's cheap to compute.