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Re:Type Inference That Sticks by majewsky on Sunday February 05, 2023 @12:24PM (#34666681)
> bypassing git entirely. I imagine I'll do something similar.

So I'm assuming your language will have some sort of custom source code management system? If so, what do you do when a user wants to store a non-code file together with the source code, e.g. how web applications might have CSS files, fonts and image assets in the repo?

Re:Type Inference That Sticks by jaredly on Sunday February 05, 2023 @09:41PM (#34672616)
So the "repo" in this case is a database, where currently the only things stored are denormalized source tree nodes. I could imagine extending the database to support arbitrary assets, probably also addressed by the hash of their contents (same as top-level language definitions are).