> This problem was solved in the 60's with S-Expressions.
> This problem was solved in the 60's with S-Expressions. Not so much. Sexps don't provide a place hang "extra" information. It's been a pain point. While some lisps allowed decorating runtime things (eg objects with attributes, and symbols with property lists), their printed/readable representations were implementation dependent. There's also a widespread misconception that Scheme is easy to parse. Numbers and all. It's actually very hard to get right. Real scheme parsers are quite large and hairy. > XML was a complete and utter waste of time. While XML was ghastly, there was an unmet need. There still is.
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This is the biggest problem with contracts, there's simply no way to actually say "please always execute this check".
I don't disagree with you on this, I worked my whole life in corporate and haven't worked as a OSS maintainer before, though I will _and ...
the new VSCode UI, looks cute, i don't like it.
I've been working on my own private harness for the past 8 months, and I've been collecting ideas from such repos I've stumbled upon.
The way AI is able to interact with outside resources is pretty impressive, but the quality of code it produces to me is still questionab...
Add PR-style review comments in Git Diff UI that feed into the active agent thread
Thanks for indulging me so far, by the way, I really appreciate this discussion, it's very stimulating.
Migrate GDScript to the GDExtension mechanism and overhaul the implementation
> This problem was solved in the 60's with S-Expressions.
> This problem was solved in the 60's with S-Expressions. Not so much. Sexps don't provide a place hang "extra" information. It's been a pain point. While some lisps allowed decorating runtime things (eg objects with attributes, and symbols with property lists), their printed/readable representations were implementation dependent. There's also a widespread misconception that Scheme is easy to parse. Numbers and all. It's actually very hard to get right. Real scheme parsers are quite large and hairy. > XML was a complete and utter waste of time. While XML was ghastly, there was an unmet need. There still is.
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