Re:Passerine: A small extensible language designed for conci...
by phabora on Monday February 22, 2021 @06:00AM
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Okay cool. Let’s just make better tooling for existing languages.
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Turns out that languages that are widely-used are difficult to make tools for because of all the pragmatic (real or imagined) tradeoffs that were made.
How can I prototype my tooling when it takes so, so, so much work to make the tooling work for a practical language?
I’ll just make a mini-language to prototype that tooling and then get back to the widely-used languages once my prototype has taught me enough.
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Turns out that languages that are widely-used are difficult to make tools for because of all the pragmatic (real or imagined) tradeoffs that were made.
How can I prototype my tooling when it takes so, so, so much work to make the tooling work for a practical language?
I’ll just make a mini-language to prototype that tooling and then get back to the widely-used languages once my prototype has taught me enough.
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